Free Will

Free Will If Sin were a beautiful woman With hell hounds from her womb And scaly coils that circle around Like a cold reptilian tomb Would you partake of the ashes From her fork-tongued mouth that fall And rape her against the gates of hell In the guise of Satan’s pall? If Death were the offspring created From the nefarious tryst you engaged Causing hell’s gates to swing open And vengeance the battle now waged Would you still find her so tempting If you knew that your debt would be paid By creating a bridge to your brothers And spreading Death’s touch like a plague? If Satan should whisper so softly To your darkest desires and laud The rebellion that burns in you deeply To forge yourself into a god Would you take of the fruit that he offers And believe that the power is yours In spite that the apple is rotted Like flesh covered in gangrenous sores? Free will is a gift from the heavens And Satan permitted to lie By God’s Holy providence only And the omniscient gaze of His eye The unholy trinity’s power Was conquered with blood as the cost Sin still is a beautiful woman But Christ regained paradise lostThoughts after reading Milton's "Paradise Lost." It was just running through my head. Written April 13th, 2002 © on Apr 13 2002 03:55 PM PST   0 • 13