Sin's Siren Song

Sin’s Siren calls and beckons

    as on-course you mean to stay.

And the world, it points and pushes,

    till you turn to look her way.

Then your flesh too keen to listen

    takes its part in her dark play.

While the devil laughs and dances

    as you headlong go astray.

You know the rocks that line her shores.

    You know she’s but a liar.

Still you turn your bow the world’s way,

    as the moth turns toward the fire.

Your flesh now captain of your ship;

    sails billowed with desire.

While the devil in the crow’s nest gloats,

    and cackles from his spire.

But once her shores fade far astern,

    her pleasures all well gone.

And the world that you let steer her way

    leaves you too wounded to go on.

Your flesh that laughed through its brief night

    now cries with the new dawn.

While the devil celebrates and plays

    again sin’s Siren song.

Joseph Weilenbeck 10/19/2013