Tuesday, October 20, 2020

The wages of sin

The wages of sin                                                                                        
 
There is no creature not destined
for the supreme goal, said my Lord.
 
What then of the wages of sin –
if each sequential death leads merely
 
to yet another roll of the dice, a foothold
and a hand up (until we wear out death itself)?
 
The wages of sin is apparently
and always has been death-in-life –
 
an aeons-length estrangement
from the Living Water until we develop
 
enough thirst and world-weariness
to prompt and enable renunciation.
 
Sin (and its wages) being the nothingness
we trade in for the Everything.
 
O child of God, the wages of sin are a necessary
imbursement toward the Self’s eventual revelation.

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