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Good In Me

An Epiphany

By Earl W. PearlPublished 3 years ago • Updated 3 years ago • 1 min read

Created with so little good

I reconciled with what I’m not

The good I once misunderstood

I chase because I haven’t got

The tiny good I had at birth

My fleshly “tent” could not contain

I’ve little value on this earth

Unless what’s good I might regain

There now resides a pain within

Not physically, but of the “heart”

What’s good reveals the pain as sin

This sin a force that pulls apart

The once held fast mistakes I made

Though I embraced, I now repent

What’s Good now offers me in trade

A “mansion” for my battered “tent”

I understand now why and how

It’s not by works I’m justified

Sins past and future, pardoned now

As once again there’s Good inside

Stream of Consciousness

About the Creator

Earl W. Pearl

I’ve been writing poetry (rhyming mostly) since about 2014 and have recently transitioned to writing novels and short stories. My poetry genres are faith, humor, social issues, politics, pretty much any subject matter.

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    Written by Earl W. Pearl