Monday, 21 July 2025

Poem of Repentance.

 **"The Broken and the Bound"**  

*A Poem of Repentance*  


You meet me in the ashes—  

where my proud towers fell,  

where fig-leaf masks lie shattered  

by the echo of my knell.  


*"Create in me a clean heart!"*  

(My ribs ache with the cry)  

*"Restore the joy I traded  

for the feast of swine’s husks dry."*  

*(Psalm 51:10 / Luke 15:16-17)*  


O Weaver of the wasteland,  

who stitches graves with dawn—  

unwrap this death-shroud clinging,  

these sinews stiff with wrong.  


I bring no coin of merit,  

no alibi of tears,  

just prodigal’s stench clinging,  

and the debt of squandered years.  

*(Luke 15:18-19 / Romans 7:24)*  


Then like a sword the whisper:  

*"Child, lift your face—and see:  

My scars out-tell your reckoning,  

My blood your liberty."*  

*(Isaiah 1:18 / Romans 8:1)*  


Now break me like the alabast—  

this pride that dares resist—  

till all my loves are poured out  

at the feet that bear my guilt.  

*(Mark 14:3 / 2 Corinthians 7:10)*  


**Key Threads:**  

- **Conviction** (John 16:8)  

- **Contrition** (Psalm 34:18)  

- **Confession** (1 John 1:9)  

- **Conversion** (Acts 3:19)  

- **Consecration** (Romans 12:1)  


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