Life’s War Within Poem by Michael P. Johnson

Why has our time on earth to end?
What is this life about?
Why must man’s knee to Heaven bend?
Why are we filled with doubt?

Why has all life on earth to die?
Why is God’s curse abroad?
Why does our flesh make war on high?
Wielding its wilful sword

The fruit we bear from lying lips
Dark deeds endorsed to shame
Such shadows from a mind eclipse
Blaspheme The Father’s name

The flesh despises Heaven’s rule
Hating the voice within
In Satan’s arms it plays the fool
And dies the death of sin

Yet deep inside the truth is known
We hear God’s guiding voice
We fail to recognise His throne
Or make His way our choice

We disobey each royal command
Though power’s in His word!
Though life and death is in God’s hand
We live our lives absurd

The world believes the devil’s lies
That hell is here on earth
Looking at life though lustful eyes
She gives to darkness birth

But when love comes with light’s true dawn
When Jesus Christ draws near
When flesh to God becomes reborn
Darkness will disappear