Dead to self ... satire
Galatians 5:24
24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions
and desires.
Dead to self …
To be dead to myself … how much dying I have to do?
How much dreaming will justify … for my dreams to be untrue?
Through the river of confusion … how much talking will flow away?
Will it bring me closer to the grave … where I should really stay?
Crucify my own flesh daily … can I do this in my sleep?
Wouldn’t that be much easier … as I slide into the deep?
Awareness sometimes a nuisance … reality I don’t handle well.
All seems too much like illusions … drawing me closer to a “well”.
Slippery slopes I’m climbing … looking up on my way down.
It seems that I’m forever falling … clinging to what I’ve not found.
Life is said to be a circle … why does it hurt when I land
falling through my own perceptions … choosing blindness to the end?
Jan Wienen