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THE BARTENDER

From time to time to time I am bewildered
As my mind plays bartender to visitors
Wayward thoughts telling profane tales
In codes of legends of staunch immorality
Like a deer caught in headlights I freeze

Why is evil such a wealthy honeycomb
Easy on the tongue’s appeal to itchy ears
But the mind’s stomach churns and ulcerates
So I lock the doors to my heart in piety
I bake the key, overlay icing and swallow

Next batch of visitors arrive at the motel
Demanding to see their friend the bartender
“No drinks today or in fact ever again … go!”
Their curses pound the door ferociously
Each blow softens the foundation of resolve

Under the barrage of angry voices I sleep
Dark hour shadows emerge to plead dreams
Ghosts of amorous appeals infiltrate deep
Lacerating, yet soothing my conscience
With the guile of a serpent’s movement

I awake to sounds of dissolute music
I trace the source to the bartender’s bar
Smiles all around and drinks are served
Peacocked visitors trading wanton tales
I check the door. It’s unhinged and loose…

Romans {7:14} For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin. {7:15} For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I. {7:16} If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good. {7:17} Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. {7:18} For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to
perform that which is good I find not. {7:19} For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. {7:20} Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. {7:21} I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. {7:22} For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: {7:23}But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. {7:24} O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

Galatians{5:16} [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. {5:17} For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the
Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.