The Lions and I

Those of prejudice minds were persuaded

To throw me into a lion’s den--a calculated

Torment by unscrupulous men—to make me

Fear a cruel and damaging blight.

But innocence my natural state, a faith

In God’s control, and in Truth’s

Destruction of evil designs—the kind of certainties

Daniel * had, that biblical visionary man

Who knew, God would send His angel

To shut the lions’ mouths, this spiritual insight

Was his strength, as it is mine through Christ.

Daniel resisted devilish abuses, and so do I.  It

Freed him, and frees me too, as I let not hungry

Lions me pursue but live in indefinable Mind.

* The Bible, DANIEL 6

--eva-maria hogrefe--

(May 15, 2010