He doesn’t protect us from hurting ourselves,
He will not prevent us from falling,
He lets us experience great torrents of pain
All in the name of His calling.
We’re caught unaware of the powerful danger
Until we are already trapped as its prey
And yet we remain so naïve to the changes
Occurring to force our perceptions astray.
We hear that he loves us apart from condition
And knows no boundary He can not leap,
But something refuses to calculate cleanly
In minds that were left in the void of belief.
All that we know to be real and distorted
Regarding existence in Eden’s black stain
Defies what we want to believe at our center,
That punishment isn’t the reason for pain.
KDC 4/08
