Shallow Waters - Poem
A couple of weeks back, I wrote a poem called "Shallow Waters" which I am sharing with you now after leaving this poem in my archives for some time. In the poem, I talk about being lied to and misled by the false words and seemingly friendly smiles of our desires. Not the desires of wanting or needing an object or specific thing, but rather, the desire or drive to occasionally stumble and perform an sinful act. We know that life is not a perfect story and sometimes we fail, stumble and are prone to performing even the most embarrassing acts and errors even though most of the time we don't mean it. We don't mean it. But it is the lying shine of fake gold and "greener grass" along with our evil inclination that create this sort of bubble in which we are trapped, as we fight to overcome our daily battles of doing good or bad. We are misled by the lies of the gold that does not shine. We are misled by calm, still waters that are actually stormy and strong. We t...