Or shall My Soul Be Strangled?

Or Will My Soul Be Strangled?
_____________________

Thus Here
I Stand..

A Spirit
clothed
in Human
Skin..

Torn
between
Animal,
and Man..

Trying to
Ignore the
Beast..

(and let
My Angel
In.)
__

Salvation
waits in
True Love's
Laughter..

As Sorrow
stalks the
Stagnant
Soul..


Freedom
gives
Peace..

while Hate
brings
Disaster!..

(yet both
seem
equally
extolled.)
__

In one
Hand I
Hold
Hope..

The other
grasps
a Hangman's
Noose..

One shall
teach My
Heart to
Cope!

(the other
lead astray
from Truth.)
__

Who within
my Head
shall Win?

The Animal,
or Angel?

Can Virtue
pierce this
Human Skin?

(or shall
My Soul
be Strangled?)

J.Stephen.H.