Ocean dip or kiddie pool?
Beach or box of dirt?
Lazyboy or shaky stool?
Christmas presents cool…
Or school shirt?

Noonday sun or candle flame?
Chess or Tic-Tac-Toe?
Honey pure or aspartame?
Roses fresh cut for your dame…
Or plainly faux?

Forty winks or feline nap?
Crème brûlée or mud pie?
National Park or tourist trap?
By arms and robes enwrapped...
Or trapped in pigsty?*

Tie the knot or dare not try?
Crown that lasts or laurels?
Seek a friend, or cold A.I.?
Trusting Him Who died to rise
Or ego-caught…
A lot afraid…
Until that day the farm’s bought?

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*Luke 15

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“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.” -C.S. Lewis