Ephesians 4:17-18 

The New Man

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;

 

Escape from …

 

There is no escape from reality – this is a body of death

When emotions take over however and pride is at stake

It has a cunning ability to hide from me instead

It uses its disguise so clever to replace love with hate

 

All it takes is a point of view – truth then does not matter

It cries for justice where there’s none in the man-made world

Depravity jumps from the pew and forgets about the latter

And it won’t quit till what’s done even though the truth is curled

 

It’s ready to destroy what’s in the way

Its despise for others drips off the walls of hate

It doesn’t matter anymore or innocence gets slayed

as pride through others, there needs to be paid

 

Ugliness is well defined in human nature

I guess here pride resides never to be alone

Built on gratitude in love with its own failures

To exist in a never-land dried out to the bone

 

You came from who knows where as I perceived in time

Lifted above the known you are trying to fill your empty shell

Artificialness blossoms there where you get lost in rhyme

You couldn’t even see so far to notice the emptiness you felt

 

Food galore you couldn’t finish as it’s wasted on a tasteless desire

Love and live with self in hand and search for what you can’t attain

How will you ever replenish what you can’t see down the wire?

Just because you won’t understand as you fully depend on your brain

 

For goodness sake, you’re moving on like a tree left by the highway

Sipping slowly of an empty cup searching in a great array of words

Only noticed for a moment and then gone to lead others astray

Never noticed what’s up in a wasted life where pride is a first

 

Jan Wienen