February 1988

down in a pit

drowning in the atrophied morals

of a Godless society

Paul was right in saying

“You are in the world,

but not of the world”

he also wrote

“The sin I don’t want to do,

I do”

here I live

in a world I’m not part of

yet I am

I eat, I live, I celebrate

here I live

in a world I am part of

yet I’m not

my goal is a better gold

tarnished Christianity

is worthless

so I sink like Peter

on the storm before his Lord

Christianity itself

is valuable

life itself it brings

and calm within the storm

disgusting as this world may be

however sick its dreams

I can survive, intact

in the middle of it all

in it but not of it

hanging on to God

and if, as man, I drown

I drown but a shadow

of what I am in God

with Him I am everything

without Him I am nothing