James 1:23-24            New English Translation

23 For if someone merely listens to the message and does not live it out, he is like someone who gazes at his own face in a mirror. 24 For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.

 

Forgetfulness

 

 Oh! Have you forgotten the point of origin already?

That's cute, but now, should not you be taking gingko?

Is it a chemical unbalance within the framework of the blood?

Or is it the power of darkness that influences memory’s flow?

 

If there is a spirit involved, it surely can’t be God’s

I know He tolerates this, but He surely does not like it

Looking at the “disease” like Alzheimer’s and such

It makes one wonder all along how humanity can survive it

 

Flashing thoughts are here, and this bothers quite a bit

It interrupts a train of view, and very often, prayer

Are these affected directly by the darkness deep within

By powers out of control, it seems who take at will to slay me

 

Pictures that come to mind that I dissect at will

Driven by imaginations that rush through my structure

Jumping to conclusions that my satisfactions fill

Levels of depravity that drive me to self-destruction

 

Jan Wienen