What Sin Is [Not]

It is not a vacation.
It is not liberating.
It is not a slip.
It is not aiding.
It is not without
consequences at all.
It is not an inevitable
fate, will, or call.
It is not forgotten
by a heart or soul.
It does not lead
to a person being whole.
It is not often
the hard way to go
though often it is wrong
which we often know.

It is a thought process
that is so often odd.
It is a turning of a back.
It is a rejection of God.
It is a giving in.
It is an institution.
It is the despicable practice
of spiritual prostitution.
It can lead to nothing,
no effect immediately,
or it can hit a soul
on the spot, instantly.
It can lead to a dark place
full of panic and despair,
yet it can lead to the attitude
of lifting it up in the air.

Sin is a fire that burns
the bridge to God Himself,
one that burns eternally,
eternally flaming and felt.
Sin is that which discourages,
one that makes us want to die,
but there is an entity
that will allow us to survive:
Christ repairs the bridge
that our sin once burned
to give us a mercy and ending
we could have never earned.
He wipes the tears
from a swollen eye
and saves a soul
so that we may never die.
His pursuit kills that which
attempts to murder a soul
while He is simultaneously filling
each and every black hole.
God's merciful hand
that is all-encompassing
catches us on the fall
through the whining and fussing.
He never allows us
to be conquered by sin
for His love is eternally greater
as He proves here yet again.