Best Poems Written by Daniel Payne

End Game

I figured it out
A long time ago.
Call it a hunch;
Bulls-eye! With an arrow.

Faith and wisdom will
Sort it all out.
Pieces of a puzzle
Strewn all about.

Good and evil,
No neutral ground.
Can't ride the fence
Or step out of bounds.

"God, help me!" I can't
Do this alone forever.
"Can't beat 'em, join 'em?"
I said, "Not me! Not ever!"

God has a plan and
I need only be still.
Love others, do good
Bring myself within his will.

I sat long and hard
I re-thought it all.
It all goes back
To satan's great fall.

The story goes
Something like this,
It all began with
A "snake" and a "hiss".

Now, here we are
It's twenty-twenty-one.
They're leaving out God
And life's no longer fun.

Neighbor against neighbor
King against king.
Gold and silver
Are all worthless things.

God said, "Time is short.
The hour is near."
Satan gave a snort,
Smile giving way to sneer.

He exclaimed with pure joy.
God wasn't amused that
We became the devil's toy.

In like a lion and
Out like a lamb?
God said, "Stop! Reverse that!"
It came down to a man.

King of kings,
Name above all names.
God took off the gloves,
No longer playing a game.

Jesus Christ is his name,
From a humble beginning.
I see, from the looks of it,
Now God is winning!

Love nailed to the cross.
Jesus, the final sacrifice.
Though afraid, he prayed
Only for God's advice.

"Your will, not mine",
He said as he knelt.
All my sins are the
Cause of what he felt.

God is great!
Exalted be his name!
It was 3 days later that
Jesus changed the game.

Satan is alive and well,
But only for a while.
God's coming back and
That concludes the file.

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