Enticed by the promise of annihilation,
dust as the goal instead of paradise,
chances are you never were
much enamored of yourself.
Perhaps some sort of epiphany
has shaken the reasonableness from your bones
or the unexpected purity and sincerity
of the One who offers the barter
has overcome your fear of death.
Ask for nothing, the Master says, and you might
have always believed nothing is what you deserve.
Still, a proposal of renunciation and servitude,
ending with annihilation is an odd enticement.
Maybe you have considered all along
yourself a mistake –
that there needs to be a correction.
You’ve known it deep down forever
and longed for your lonely light
to be extinguished or outshone –
made extraneous by the eternal light of its Maker.
O child of God, the One calling you
is the One you have been awaiting for ages.
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