Whom do you serve?


		This decision's mine -
		Though respect from my friends
		Depends on what I do now;
		Well - it's my life -
		I own all decisions -
		I am free to do as I wish -
		This is NOW:
		I am unrestricted by anything or anyone -
		No fear;
		If other people see me as less
		Because of these following events
		Then it's their own morals 
		That they're imposing upon me -
		I have no responsibility
		To hold to these restrictive measures -
		It's their problem -
		My life is my own,
		My actions whatever I wish them to be,
		My body a tool that will inevitably get dirty -
		So why not now?
		I am mine.

		"But these morals 
		Are not set to hinder freedom,
		But to be border lines 
		For freedom and happiness within safety:
		With eternity in mind.
		No-one is free from having a master."

		I cannot hold these plans
		Dear to my heart any longer -
		For they spell destruction to my respect -
		Respect that I hold onto firmly at present.
		I have bent my knee to the Lord -
		I shall serve Him and not another -
		And by this
		I also serve His cause,
		My friends,
		My faith,
		My enemies,
		His name -
		I cannot play around fickly with my choices -
		Changing service briefly (but often)
		Just because it's easier -
		Although I know he will forgive me
		I would rather not crawl back to Him in shame
		Too many thousand more times.

© R. A. W. S. Clarke

We all serve some-one - whether it be God, the Devil, or one of many thousands of other things such as, say, the gods of lethargy and apathy, money or lust. So who do you serve?

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