Choose Your Story

A discussion of "Choose Your Story"

It is possible to serve the light

For your own sake?

To be

Dark inside,

Filthy with secret pride

While outwardly stacking up

Your achievements,

Allowing others

To laud your name,

And never once realizing

That your soul is lost,

Not in gross immorality,

But in the actor’s game

The hypocrites play.

Listen closely

To yourself.

Is your story one of redemption?

Or is it the hero’s myth?

They are not the same story.

I have a deep distrust for the latter

And an unfailing affection for the former.

So don’t tell me how you slew the dragon.

Tell me about the dragon inside of you.

That’s the story I long to hear

Because he lives inside me too,

And it is all I can do

With the help of God

To find my way.