Omniscience

* I wrote this poem over a year ago - on a computer that has had it's share of problems booting up -  I finally got the computer working and found this poem which I had forgotten I had written and never found its way to anything other than an inactive hard drive  -so I thought I would post it today.  It is from a time when I was in a dark mood, as evidenced by only one positive line (the final line) in the whole poem -

Omniscience

By Steve Loggins 6/16/09

Naked before the Lord we kneel, our putrid state is soon revealed

To everyone else, He already sees – our utter existence of depravity

The best we are is leprosy, the whited spots of misery

No wholesomeness will e’er be seen, our mistaken attempts at dignity

What fools we are who will not see that no good thing resides in me

In you, in us; we cannot tell, that the best we do still warrants Hell.

He sees, He knows, He orchestrates, all events that seal our fate

Tho' we might try to wage debate, we still have sin written on our slate 

No mortal mind can comprehend the vastness of it all

The world that was, that we have now resulting from The Fall

Nor what will be because He deigned to drink the bitter gall

Of the Father’s wrath against our sin – He left Heaven’s hall

He knew it then, He knows it now, His suffering foretold

So man might leave this wicked place to walks the streets of Gold.