Avoid Acedia

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Acedia

 

When you practice no virtue
 you may be courting sin
causing friends and believers
to question the state you are in

 

Since you may have decided
 prayer is not for you
tell them it is only boredom
with what they choose to do

 

The world is a place
where we can live out our days
being reckless and resigned
to our indiscriminate ways

 

With no intention to engage
in what heaven can give
we remain disinterested
in how the saints want to live

 

If we seem seriously forlorn
with no successful way out
our negligence and passivity
will help us ignore being devout

 

One can avoid being despondent
living in the cave of despair
but will stupor and torpidity
make life any less fair

 

Unconcern and apathy
enjoy hopelessness and greed
but they give one an appetite
for the lust on which we feed

 

Whatever course you choose
as you look to the days ahead
it is certainly most likely
you will experience being dead

 

© 2009 Sam Freeland

Reviews

[Michael X]

This poem speaks on many levels, the isight is the wisdomof the soul, its edifying the way wisdom brings forth feelings of added knowledge and knowledge inspires the heart to understand,
Brilliant work, and delivers on a subtle depth that reflects meditation in pondering