My Addiction (An Open Prayer to God)

Thu, 02/06/2014 - 18:02 -- C_Bass

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Spring Arbor University
106 East Main St.
United States
35° 49' 38.9316" N, 86° 4' 6.762" W

O Lord:

 

As you know; there is this terrible thing out there in this world

In fact, it is so terrible that it makes my head swirl

 

However, I’m not viewing it through the eyes of a spectator

For I went so far into this evil that it blasted me into a crater

That I feel like I can’t get out of

 

It’s so evil that it’s currently my addiction

It makes me think that its consequences are fiction

But it’s actually a restriction

It makes my soul leave my heart like just like an eviction

And what’s left of my soul feels like it’s under a bad kind of conviction

Am I to suffer from this evil forever, so that not even benediction

Can free me from this living hell?  Because hell is within its jurisdiction

Again, I feel like my soul is under constriction

But what I need right now, O Lord, is your kind of conviction

 

I’m already suffering under the kind of conviction that Satan gives me

I need your holy conviction to take away my blindness and make me see

That this sin called pornography is something that I need to flee

 

And not just pornography but lust as well

Because every time I fall under that spell

I end up regretting it, and feel like I’m in Hell

And I can’t handle all these feelings that make my head swell

 

Oh Lord, what I need right now is you

 

Not something that can please my sexual desire

Because following that crap is completely dire

To my soul, which I should not have for myself

Because all I do with it is put it on a shelf

Rarely using it

And when I do use it it’s to destroy one’s self

Whether it’s me or someone else

All I do with it is to mess it up

And I…don’t…want….that…

 

I want you to completely take over my soul

My soul that I feel like has a hole

That no other desire can fill

I need you to take over me and make me whole

So that you may have total control

Over my life and my soul

 

All that I should ever want in this world

Is to be more like you

 

To have me die to self

And make me new

So I can see the world through your view

So when you need to use me, you can, on your cue

And not when I need to use you

Just to prove a point

 

My only goal in this world should be to praise you

 

And to express it in such a way that everyone can see it

 

I should be following 116

And I’m not talking about the rapping clique

 

I should be reading Romans 1:16

And everything else in between

Genesis and Revelations

Because that is what I need right now, a revelation

In my heart

So that I can be a part

Of advancing your kingdom

And not my income

Of the sins that keep affecting me

Sins just like the ones I’m struggling with; lust and pornography

 

God…please help me

 

I feel like I’m so far away from you

Comments

sophisticatedgrace

Praise the Lord, my brother that you choose to cry out to Him.

sacrifice

He is closer than your breath, and don't flee it: conquer it. 

I believe in you :) keep up the fight. 

Having this mindset is the first step. Take it day by day.

Otherwise, this poem is good. It's honest, it's raw. It's GOOD. Good job. :) 

Antavia_Mason


Your poem is so honest and heart felt. Know that you are not alone in this struggle and there will be victory after this. As someone commented take it day by day surrendering everything to God.He hears your prayer :)

Robiel Hidray Fesseha Rasu

Thank you sincerily for that wonderful and inspiring word from Princes  Power that I just read. When I heard him speak his wonderful words on the Arensio Hall Show I knew I had to look him up on the internet. He inspires me and makes me feel that there is a hope out there in this awful and clamatity ful word.But we must keep our heads held up high and keep on keeping on.Selah

Robiel Hidray Fesseha Rasu

Yes and may Jah be with us all.Thou we go through this awful and clamadity full world we must keep our heads held up high and not forget all the blessings that are given to us by our father in heaven.                                 selah                              

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