To fail to set sights on the good which is highest <br />What debasing, and mortifying gamble <br />Is it not evil itself? <br />I get the feeling of sadness, my Lord... <br /> <br />To be pleased with soul's poorness <br />What spiritless weakness, <br />Same as holding in contempt <br />The beauty of <br />Much to be looked after trueness <br />Much to be fostered meekness. <br />I get the feeling of sorrow, my Lord... <br /> <br />To be a stranger to what is faultless <br />Being outlander to that which is spotless <br />Isn't it a housing for aches useless? <br />A shelter to struggles worthless? <br />I get the feeling of grief, my Lord... <br /> <br />To be gutless in allowing evil <br />To litter and pollute the soul <br />What a fabricator of false coloring and error <br />Shameful suppliers of evil in the world. <br />I get the feeling of mournfulness, my Lord... <br /> <br />To heed to gluttonous demons of the flesh <br />What enslavers of damaging baggage! <br />To turn to flesh - to hide in the flesh <br />To turn away from You, my Lord... <br />I get the feeling of stomach ache - <br />I get the feeling of heartache, my Lord... <br /> <br />Sin - the voracious thief <br />While there is no desire for what is just and right <br />There is for all time selfish - injurious greed <br />Sin - the voracious thief of joy and time... <br />I get the feeling of sorrow, my Lord... <br /> <br />Such a throbbing waste <br />Aching heart bleakness <br />Such a burning of the seat of thought <br />Incorrigible, unpersuadable? weakness <br />Unpromising... <br />Dark fleshiness <br />Unsteadiness and unbefitting weakliness <br />Culpable unconcern <br />Culpable ignorance <br />Diffused complicity to evil <br />Diffused participation in error <br />Diffused complicity to terror... <br />Diffuseness of support to loss <br />Fertility of fatalities... <br />At what cost? !<br /><br />Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/barrenness/
