I have fled temptation
All the days of my life

Before the black pit of rage
Have I found myself
While surrounded by the vile of the earth

Would that it be this heart tested?
Is that it is the killer in me obeyed my stay

Before the unquenchable drunkenness
Have I found myself
While surrounded by greater libations!

Would that it be this soul tested?
Is that it is the passage of time saved

Before the fury of passion’s flesh
Have I found myself
While surrounded by every desire offered freely

Would that it be this flesh tested?
Is that it is the will prevailed

Before the alter of thought
Have I found myself
While surrounded by the ignorance of man

Would that it be this mind tested?
Is that it is compassion wins the day

Who can be shown wisdom
But the fool?

Who can be shown patience
But the enraged?

Who can be shown the path to life
But the wicked and perverted?

Who can know anything such
Without witness?

Cursed is not my restraint in this life
But a master of my instruction has it been

For what resides in my mind
Is plot and plan
What resides in my heart
Is unbridled will
What resides in my flesh
Is desire without end

And this not in due payment of resentments coil
But rather the drawing want of the dark spirit

Truly I have known the will of the dark side
For it speaks and charms and comforts
It lays the path before me to gain the world
It bends the will of others in their offering

And such a wrath as the likes never before conceived by me
Did the lash bring forth at my distain
For the elements of my own devising

Oh that stage set before us!
Even delivered into my very hands
Did I hold the key to command on earth
The future of my own making

I have not bowed

Look before the eyes of the Spirit within me
And know from where it came

All too easy is the destiny of control
Yet you, dark one, will not find the manipulative hand
In my Spirits Actions
Nor folly for such in my Spirits Heart
Nor desire of such in my Spirits Mind
Even though I am aware
That you know me better than any human
And isn’t this your downfall?

Did not my words
Laid bare before the Father of my own King
Resound with truth?
Were they not also the words of the King?

To that place of death you took me
To that place of life instead did take hold

I went back to the Throne
Releasing all things upon this earth
For in it all was fear

How obvious it became
That the misty nothingness of the clouds themselves
Are greater than thou dark horse

We are all bound by the same truth
That no one leaves until the night is done

And when The Great who speak of cleanliness do speak
Who can resist their truth?
If another did offer the waters
And I did wash my robe therein
How could even I turn away in self-deceit?

That voice is as an earthquake
With a message as if a birth
And a power as if a war was won

Where can darkness run
When confronted by such light?

And here I am
As a newborn with much to learn
Yet given already one edict of treasure

I have not known such food and drink
For it cannot be known beforehand
Nor have I known such riches
Nor have I known such passion
Nor have I known such growth
Nor have I known such command
As what is now there

For after the choice of life and death
Is the choice of everything else

As always was foretold

Ryan o0o