Deception

Deception

By Steve Loggins

10/5/2012

A wooden horse called friendship hides within its hollow frame,

A Captain of the Enemy, Deception is his name.

With him, hidden in the dark, poised and coiled to strike,

Are other foes named “lies” and “false”, a host of them alike.

Crouched and ready to kill and maim those that let them in,

Self-Indulgence takes the point to kill the guards within.

Rationalization finds the king and tells him all is well,

While all around him sentries fall to silent knives of hell.

The castle’s taken with nary a shot, the Enemy has won

A victory for sin and death, a heartache for God’s Son.

The King is taken, the Queen is held, in chains of Hate’s despair

The wooden horse is empty now, the kingdom now aware.

Betrayal snaps to attention, to report the job is done,

Deception shows a crafty smile, and barks they’ve only halfway won.

“There’s more to do, there’s more to snare”, he tells his elite troop

“So get back out and do your job, we’ve more enemies to dupe”

“Resistance to our fiendish plans will come with dawning day,

We must make ready to resist the Truth and carry all captives away.”

“We must guard our chains of Hate, forged by Anger, Pain and Lies,

There is no room for Mercy here, watch out for Grace’s spies.”

The orders given, the prisoners chained together in a line,

And marched toward the gates of Hell, away from Hope Divine.

It seems like all is going well in Satan’s covert plan,

To undermine the Grace of God, and condemn His failing man.

But breaking on the darkened path, comes Courage, Truth, & Love

With winging swords of Mercy, Grace, and Justice from above.

“Let them go! They’re free indeed, by Blood they cannot die”,

Says Jesus, Captain of the Host, who strangles every Lie.

Deception snarls and cowers back, but rallies in defiance,

“They forged these chains themselves, you know, I only hold alliance

And claim the right of victory because the law is sure

That sin and death will now prevail, this work is now secure”

“Away with You! Away with Hate! Away with Sin and Death!

I fought that fight on Calvary’s brow, you lost as I gave my final breath!”

“These slaves are Mine! They sometimes fail to be all that they can be

But you have no right to drag them to Hell, I say that they are free.”

And with this word, the chains dissolve in light and harmony,

While Satan’s hosts turn tail and run with shrieks of cacophony.

The captives kneel and thank the King who will always set them free,

If they but pray and bow to Him, and come on bended knee.