Today I struggle

• Today I struggle, today I fight
• Torrents and floods of temptation sweep me
• I feel weak and vulnerable
• But I say not today, no

• My eyes, the windows of my soul
• They take in arrows and smokes
• My body bleeds and grows dark
• But I say not today, no

• My mind and the free-roaming thoughts
• Of lust, deceit and lies
• They refuse to be taken captive
• But I say not today, no

• My hands and strength
• That give me the feel of pleasure
• And sends chills to arouse my body
• But I say not today, no

• My feet that take me
• That lead me where I will
• I can so easily trip and fall
• But I say not today, no

• My ears that are so quick to hear
• So slow to listen
• Taking in pleasurable knowledge
• But I say not today, no

• My mouth so insatiable
• Takes in my life’s needs
• Feeding my lust and greed
• But I say not today, no

• My heart still beating and strong
• Pumping my life away
• Deceitful in all its ways and feelings
• But I say not today, no

• My body of flesh with whom I battle
• I push and will and deny and struggle
• And I would usually fall
• But I say not today, no
• Not today

“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” – C.S. Lewis