The D/evil within

 What is it that moves you?

Is it envy greed or lust?

Is it pride, gluttony or sloth?

Is there no-one you can trust?

Is there something there that is?

Always urging that “you must”?

Have you lost your self control?

Is your poison cigarettes?

Is it something you regret?

What is it that drives you to give in?

Is there nothing else but greed?

What moves your heart?

What gives your head a start?

How do you cope with your devil within?

Do you sometimes give in?

Do you fight until you win?

What drives you?

Is it a fear of some kind?

Is it an urgency to wound?

Yourself and all around?

Is there something you need to prove?

What gives you the reason to behave?

Are you some substance’s slave?

Do you fight it with your last breath?

Until your lungs are gasping for that air?

It is really so unfair!

Do you like it when it wins?

Do you fight until it stings?

Are you as strong as you do think?

Is there no tiny little chink?

In that armour that surrounds?

You heart and soul and mind?

When it comes on and you crave?

Does your conscience intercede?

Is it the devils’ hoary weed?

Is it jealousy or pride?

Can’t you just push it all aside?

How hard is it to live?

If you can only give?

Your entire trust and soul?

To any little ghoul?

That grows into a giant crow?

Awaiting your will’s demise?

Will it peck out your eyes?

Will it damage those you love?

When will you realise?

Why not surrender you do ask?

It’s just a little lark!

Is it such a hard task?

To be driven to disgust?

By the only things you trust?

Your heart, your mind, your soul?

Do you scream and rant and rage?

Is it anger or disdain?

Is it ‘need’ to cause some pain?

How do you make it stop?

Can you really pause the clock?

Know you, it is your heart?

What drives you?

Can you not realise?

These things are so unwise?

That drives your family insane?

Is it jealousy and pain?

How do you compensate?

For all the pain and hate?

What drives you?

Can you not love and trust?

Must you give in to your lust?

Little by little, but you just

Cannot control it!

Why be like a crazed beast?

That slips into your breast?

What drives you?

Do you not realise?

There is another choice!

It is long and slow to rise

To gain elation that is prized!

To rise above that hurt and pain!

There is so much to gain!

Freedom from the evil that’s within

All you need is to begin!

Start with a tiny change

Just a bit to re-arrange

Be it smokes or drugs or lust?

You really can! You must!

Begin to love and trust!

You can overcome at last!

You can leave it all behind, that past

That disgusts and hurts and busts

Your head and heart and mind

Only you can seek and find!

That place you will not yet trust

Until you finally see

Just what you really can be!

Don’t give in to it!

Fight to the very end!

Rip and tear away that façade

That hides your inner softer side

Let love and beauty guide

Don’t let love shrivel up and die

Aim high up to the skies

Let your mind take wing and soar

Set all evil out the door

Say goodbye to sin and pride

Let your heart go up and glide

Ever upwards and onward

Find that inner you rewarded

With peace and joy expounded

Let God into you heart

Don’t let it fall apart!

‘Tis a slow ride at first

You can forget the past

Let your flag no longer fly

At half mast for that life is past

Your sorrows to depart

Fly the colours of love at last

Give freedom from sin a chance

Give your heart and courage voice

Don’t let evil win the tide

Fight against the sin of pride

For Justice, Love and Peace

Let us raise our voices high

 Together increase the strength

Of all who falter under sin

Give them all a helpful shoulder

Help each other climb that rise

Be at you neighbours side

To help that evil over-ride

That is in us all, inside

Yes do it now and we’ll all win!

Let that passion that’s within

Be for good and not for sin

Know that Angels’ at your side

Just waiting to be your guide

Please believe; I understand

I’ve watched you in your slide

I’ve felt your pain in my own heart

I’m here to let you know

Just how hard it is to see

The one that you do love

Being tossed upon stormy sea

Almost run aground and then

When life’s upon the mend 

The fall in bitterness descend

Though it seems no-one really cares

“Tis the evil ones’ awful snare

That has you in its bends

People find it easy to declare

“I’d never go down there”

But little do they know

How the journey often winds

 Looking from the other side

Never having had your choice

Or hearing that sinuous voice

That lured you to surmise

How tiny seemed the vice

They know not how they would fare

Were it them that was down there

If you were up above

Looking down on them with love

Crying out in all your pain

Would they not theorise

“He knows not what he says!”

‘Tis only when you wear the other’s shoes

That you can truly recognise their blues

And not just look upon their

Frightened eyes and pale wan face

And turn away your scornful face

Thinking only of their disgrace

And not the Lord’s forgiving grace

Shame on you and all your race

Of merciless sinners full of hate

Mercy is the strongest tool

Harden not your heart or you’ll

Find the same disfavour turned on you

When time is really at an end

There’ll be no time to just pretend

You were merely trying to make your point

Your nose will soon be out of joint

That same unforgiving stare

Will be the one you can not bear

When judgment lights on you

And time runs out for then

Your time will be at an end

Jesus will return and show

All sinners to their justly earned end!