hang your head in shame
shameful desires you have
lusts of the flesh
pray them away.
I scrape towards it
one hand before me
reaching, clutching
while my Right hand
clings to the Truth.
my hand slips,
darkness falls.
I am now coal-black
dirty
filthy
shamed.
shall I cut off my hand?
I cannot cut out my heart.
Author notes
I'm a Jesus freak!
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DIRTYYYYYYYY MIND!!!!!
What is it with attacking the left hand. Left hands aren't that bad. I don't think.
As a reader picks this up there's a clear masterbation element to it. Of course there's Biblical resonnance too. I especially love the last too lines. We must remember again and again that many of the stories in the Bible are parables and metaphors which are meant to communicate God's message. His message on sin is not that we should start hacking away our body parts, because some we really can't like our heart, but that we shoulde work on keeping the whole body pure. We must be extra careful to prevent all members of our body from sinning, for the body works together as a whole. In 1 Corinthians 12 members of the body symbolize members of the church. It's so easy to cut people out of the church. Ex-communication should, I think, not be a priority or encouraged. It is a last resort. If the hand can be saved you save the hand. You minister to the hand. You try desparately to save that hand if it can be saved. If it cannot, then it cannot and it must be cut. But not before trying desparately to preserve that which was once in Chirst, for every hand is the size of the body's heart (when balled into a fist). Every hand is a little heart. The more hearts we save, the more we do the Lord's work. Surgery is a tricky thing. But no patient goes into an operation to be executed. They go to be healed. They go to be saved. Then let's apply a hospital to the church. Take the patient into the OR and do your best to gurad their life. If the operation goes bad, then it goes bad and you have to accept that. That's really God's point. But we have hope. We have life, and we have the power to heal bodies, by the power of the Holy Spirit working through us in Christ Jesus. Therefore, we, I say, are doctors, not hangmen. And this is God's will. -
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Perhaps I need to stop posting poetry that can be taken in a sexual way.
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Perhaps amputation is a little over-strict as a punishment for a little bit of self-stroking. If we all got similarly punished we would live in an armless world.
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lol, I see your point, but it's a bit more symbolic than that. In fact this poem wasn't even written about masterbation, it just kind of fit the description. I'm talking about all the other crap that we let ourselves do in spite of what we know is right.
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Wow! This poem makes me think... a lot. Your last line"shall I cut off my hand?
I cannot cut out my heart" reminded me of a Bible verse. "If your right hand causes you to sin, better to cut it off then your whole body be burned in Hell" It's in Matthew 6 somewhere.(I was just paraphrasing) This is really good!
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er, glad, lol.
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yeah you're quite correct about the bible verse, but I believe it's in um... 1 corinthians? yeah/. anyhow, clas you liked it!
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Yes 1 Corinthians 12
I thought it was 15 which talked about the body, but no it's 12. 1 Corinthians 12. Also, as someone else pointed out there's some Matthew verses. There's actually 2 that relate to this:
Matthew 5:30
Matthew 18:8
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