REALIZATION

REALIZATION
By cindy
8/20/2017

I realized something this morning.
I realized that I am okay.
I realized that  I’m a good person
Way down really deep inside

I’ve been having some hard times
Mostly from loved ones showing me
Things that are flawed, wrong, or broken
About myself, that I couldn’t see.

But of all the things I’ve seen
That they could dig down and dredge up
I came to an understanding
That I’m not such a bad ole bloke.

One of them had to strip me
Of all my hard earned stuff
In order to reach in and show me
That I’m a nobody, a leach, a glut

But I’m still the hard worker
That I’ve always always been
I’ll earn it back, then more so
And multiply it by tens

Another had to point out
That I stand to protect all others
I rush in to fight their causes
But, why shouldn’t I help my brothers?

Yet another had to reach back
Decades to find the thing
That I had done so wrong then
And I think, is this all you bring?

Bring it on, bring it on
Pile me full of fake flaws
Cause I’m not so bad after all
I haven’t broken any laws

I’ve not harmed anyone’s progress
I’ve not set any one back
My biggest fault is to help?
Of that, I will never slack.

Is that all you have to show me?
You followers of deviant spawns?
Is that all that you can point out?
Has your scrutiny begun to look wan?

I woke up this morning and realized
That I am a Child of God
I have been made in His image
With flaws that you fail to laud

Those are the traits that my Father
Has given to me so to teach
See here, there’s one that you missed
Tucked in a place hard to reach

Oh wait, this one isn’t mine
This one’s a mote in your own eye
Beware, as you judge one another
Beware, as you poke and pry

I am but the least of these
I am a no-one, surrounded by sin,
But I am One with my Father
And He loves me, deep within.