Reckon yourselves to be .... (1)

If following dis-eye-as is as though

we're slaves of them, and they're our way to see

the possibilities which we could know,

coz they define our motives, what we be...

If how we live can be just as our will

would have us be, then we could only pray

“God, not your will, but mine be done” until

we were the same as all here, in our day.

If my dis-eye-as are my only boss,

the source of my agendas, outcomes, and

my only motive - high as they be - loss

of love can be explained. My heart must stand

as stone would stand, a monument, quite still

and centred on my name in others eyes,

or any other thing. I’d not fulfil

the way that Jesus showed me to the skies.

Which was to die to that whole way of life,

to die to self, as god of this whole place,

to now deny that self's contest, the strife

that comes from our own wills to have our ways.

If we ignore the way that Christ laid down

when he laid down his life upon that cross,

if we try just to take the ruler's crown

without a death and burial, no loss(!),

Then I perceive that all my best intents

will still be overpowered by my “sin”,

that comes from self-ish genes, in all events

I'll rash'nalize as things go out from in.

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