Where I Do Live (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to M. M. Walters)

Where I do live in the structured reality
of a career that does not anymore exist,
You are still daily standing at my side.
You are right here in all occurrences,
where the things that happen are not from the decisions that I do make.
Mere human beings and destiny does continually strike at me,
You do daily lead on the narrow way on which I have got to go
but You do not force Your will down on my independence.
Senseless suffering, pain and destruction and everything bad
does come from man's own choices just like in Eden
and as a human I do notice Your perfect love
while You do make my way straight and right
and I am astonished with Your grace, love and righteousness
where even in the most difficult times You do make my life better.

[Reference: "Theodicee" by M. M. Walters.]