Image

Am I the image of a monkey?
Am I a creature of flesh and blood?
Or is reality the image of Heaven
And I the image of the Lord above?

Where does my righteousness come from?
From spite, appetite, a fearful mind?
Or does the image know love and justice
Forgiveness, mercy, Justice Divine?

Am I simply a machine that consumes
That grabs and feeds the glorious 'I'?
Or must the image create and play, and
Giving freely, proclaim Love Divine?

Am I a slave who bows to Power?
Who cringes before both Idols and Man?
Or do I live in blessed freedom
Obedient to God's Holy Lamb?

Do I flee life, seek only darkness?
The resentful self who worships the Lie?
Or do I seek light in life Eternal
The Image, one with the Creator Divine?