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Unfortunate


Hebrews 5:14 New English Translation (NET Bible)

14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.

 

Unfortunate

 

Drive to fame in His Name may be detrimental

Pride will blossom uncontrollably like the tossing of the waves

It will pick up pollution for that is fundamental

As flesh and old nature will appear from darkened caves

 

History is full of those who fell in this old trap

Men thought they could handle pressures of elevation

It does not take long for their feeble-will to snap

Trying to escape reality and the state self-frustration

 

Only few are made to handle fame in true fashion

Blue of blood and dry in heart developed a la carte

Life to them is to be played with a mental concussion

Until their loveless lives in false-precept peace do depart

 

Jan Wienen

 

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