Drinking Poison

We forgive, but we don't forget
That is the trap that we have set
And not for the other party
But like a rusted bear trap
We've placed right at our
Own two feet

It is the quote that makes us feel
Lofty yet edgy
And helps just o avoid the Awkward conversation
And the thick tension
Hanging in the air

It is the poison that we drink
Out of fear
While inwardly we scream
Grace don't come near
How can I impart you on Somebody else
When I don't even know
How you apply to myself

Well Christian, Buddhist,
Muslim or other
I tell you
We are all born of the same Earthly mother
Her name is sin
And her song is plight
And listen to me now
When I tell you that
She revels when we fight
But we must run
And Run as fast as we can
Shake loose of her alluring hand And deceptive grip
And flee to He who promises That in the Sea of Forgetfulness Is where we can take dip
And as far as the
East is from the West
Is where He throws our worst in Exchange for His best

Once upon a time
My best
Was as good as a
Pair of crippled legs
Bent and mangled beneath me
Twisted up in all of
My wrongdoing
It was no one's fault but my own
Even then he said, "Pick up your mat, and just come home"
Oh but how I loved to
Linger around that
Old familiar mat

The paralysis was gone
But I still walked with a limp
To remind myself of
Where I'd come from
To remind myself
Of where'd been

But you see
It doesn't really work that way
The limp was
My reasoning to stay
To stay and cling to that mat From which I'd
Already been freed
To that old familiar mat that Fought so desperately to
Have an unforgiving grip on me

But oh to grace
How great a debtor
Daily I am constrained to be
Oh to grace whose forgiveness Never holds her memory heavily Over me