Tag: poem

  • Musings on the Lord’s Day

    The leaves on the treeDance in the sunlightThey are a pleasant delight Shafts of lightBeam into my bedroomDispelling doom I hear cardinalsMaking music so sweetListening is quite the treat As I lie in my bedThe hours quickly go byA tear falls from my eye I have major depressionTrapped in a state of fatigueMental illness is…

  • An Overview of How We Are Saved

    In the Garden of EdenMan walked with GodSuch intimacy was amazingThey walked on the lush green sod But the SerpentConvinced man to sinTo be redeemedHe would need a propitiation This FallWould corrupt every manAll are affected by original sinFrom the Garden, man faced a ban But God was notDone with manOut of loveTo earth came…

  • An Honest Appraisal

    The time is rightFor a special delightSomething in the air tonight My mind is disturbedThoughts are perturbedMy insanity is slightly curbed Demons visit me at nightThey cause quite a frightThey are in my sight I sometimes get quite irateStanding by the gateI rebuke Satan’s hate I am sometimes quite insaneI have a defective brainMy body…

  • First Among Equals

    I went on a journeyWithin my mindWhat wonders I did find My mind is a raging maelstromOf pure energyIt is truly mighty I have traveled near and farUsing phased mind warps, you seeTraveling to any spacetime history I can travel the universeWithout ever leaving my homeMy consciousness can surely roam On Earth, I am a…

  • Spiritual Warfare

    A battle ragesBetween the carnal man’s strifeAnd the Spirit-filled life Unregenerate man is spiritually blindI walk by faith in Christ aloneHe is the one who did atone Powers and principalities fight for usOur God is sovereign and mightyChrist shines so brightly We must deny the carnal in usSpiritual warfare is keyGod’s ways are a mystery…

  • The Halcyon Days of My Youth

    I ran barefootIn the lush and coolSummer grass The sun’s warmthMakes me feel at peaceI relax in a lawn chair I watch monarch butterfliesDance around in the airThey eat from the honeysuckle I walk down to the creekI knock down the water weedsMy sisters, Vi and Tanya, join me We pick cicada shellsOff the pine…

  • I Have Mental Illness

    I’m mentally illI take many a pill I lost my mindIt I cannot find Sometimes I’m manicMy thoughts are frantic I suffer from neurosisAs well as psychosis I have delusions galoreAnd hallucinations, I abhor Anxiety disorder, I have indeedI wish to be freed Sometimes I get a dissociative eventMy sanity is bent Schizophrenia plagues me…

  • Salvation Explained

    We aren’t savedBecause ofOur own meritsOr inherent qualitiesBefore the foundationOf the worldGod chose HisElect peopleFor His gloryThis is predestinationThe Word of GodTeaches thatThe natural manIs a child of SatanThis person isDesperately wickedHe has a heartOf stoneMan is born in sinFrom the time of the FallThis original sinTouches every soulOur only nature is sinfulBut out of…

  • Slumber

    I lay in bed all dayNot a single care came my way For 18 hours, I rested in bedOn the soft pillow was my head I had strange dreams all nightSome of them caused a fright At 3am – the Witching HourI faced Satan’s power I was not afraid at all“The Lord rebuke you!” was…

  • Born from Above

    All praiseBe unto GodHe rules withAn iron rod God hatesThe wickedBut lovesThe Elect He picked The unregenerateAre Satan’s childrenTheir nature isRotten within The natural manIs spiritually deadInherited sin from AdamOur federal head The Holy SpiritQuickens a soulThey receiveA new nature in full RegenerationPrecedes faithWe’re giftedFaith and repentance both When we are born againWe are made…