"Letter From Prison"
© Raul Cortes Jr. 2/4/15
Sin can travel freely as long as it can pay.
Not acknowledging itself as the problem of today.
If virtue is a pauper, it is stopped at all frontiers, so they say.
On the ship, in the middle of the ocean, will it stay?
Sin can travel freely as long as it can pay.
Not acknowledging itself as the problem of today.
Virtue chooses peaceful poverty over painful riches.
Requesting preservation of health & mental vision.
A purpose without the power to purchase.
Worthless if you can't see beyond the surface.
If virtue is a pauper, it is stopped at all frontiers, so they say.
On the ship, in the middle of the ocean, will it stay?
Feels like social stigma, born out of social exclusion.
The poet uses this isolated time to define the problem & solution.
They say the cost of living is too high.
The wage of sin is death, but what happens to people when virtue dies?
Are they dead while they are still alive?
Or are they just living a lie?
Sin can travel freely as long as it can pay.
Not acknowledging itself as the problem of today.
If virtue is a pauper, it is stopped at all frontiers, so they say.
On the ship, in the middle of the ocean, will it stay?
Understand the meaning of this poem, this is what I pray.
A message inside this digital bottle, may it clearly convey.
Feels like social stigma, born out of social exclusion.
The poet uses this isolated time to define the problem & solution.
The boats of the rich will sink from the weight.
Virtue will step unto water & walk on it by faith.
These are like the days of Noah, or even Lot.
But the boat is now spiritual, & Jesus Christ is captain of the yacht.
The harvest for God's children on this earth, I believe is almost granted.
But our eternal riches are in another planet.
This temporary world can travel freely in its physical form.
But the remnant find liberty in the spirit, encouraged to endure.
May the spirit perform a work, not just words & letters of a lyrical-written.
Jesus Christ has set me free, I rest with peace, even in a physical-prison.
©polo
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