A written article can help us learn doctrine. A poem or song can help us feel it. Some time ago, I wrote five poems on the doctrines of grace (often known as the Tulip or the five points of Calvinism). The hope was to convey them in a more experiential way. I have decided to share them with you all. This is the first of five.
Depravity
Cold heart of stone
There is no will for good
The core desperately sick
Symptoms like a flood
Covering all my faculties
There is no righteous part of me
All I do is stained with sin
Pandering my every whim
Root of all my being
Rotten core infected
Eyes never seeing
Life within? Undetected
Death fills up my bones
Throat an open grave
Rebellious to a fault
Evil in my veins
Darkness, my domain
Wicked soul enslaved
Eat but never full
Drink but always dry
Self fulfilling aims
Never satisfied
Judgment thus incurred
Godless conscience binding
I live not for Him Seeking, never finding