Tip Toe

Tip Toe                             3/1/2018

Time moves slowly

Until it disappears

Eroded away

By radiation

And rot. 

Born to lose

We are offered up

On a plate

The few and the many

Inextricably linked.

I am no more

Than I was then

Indulged and unaware

Asleep in my dreams.

She gave me a Bible

But then she bled me out

With one deadly thrust

Back to front. 

The mortal wounds

Kill more than the body

Succumbing to an evil

Patient, silent, and deadly.

Hiding in plain sight

And camouflaged as weakness

The humble sheep in the fold

Cold and calculating. 

Whispering in our ears

That all will be well

If only we trusted

And if only we trusted.

Sweet little lies

Worm their way in

Burrowing deep

To lay their seed. 

And with one tiny step

The door cracks open

One millimeter as a time

To all kinds of deception. 

How many have fallen

Because they wandered afar

Even though they were warned

And even though they tried. 

Cautious at first

And lulled into safety

The casual pace of deceit

Unpunished and happy. 

One foot in front of another

The seemingly innocent

And justified

Becomes a lure

Sucking us in

And sucking us down. 

Food for fodder

To fill an empty void

A sacrificial lamb

Dumb

And deceived.

And by the time they know

It is already too late

Unable to escape

Without loss

And shame. 

How great the loss

For lack of courage

We give up

And we give in. 

So far down the rabbit hole

That they can’t come back

Another loss to sin

And blaming God. 

Stay on the path

Even though, it be hard

And finish the race

No matter how tired

And how weary. 

For those who stand it now

Shall forever see the glory

The kind you cannot own

And cannot lose.