Do You Live There?

A Theory of Heaven and Hell 18

The logic of our creation

Is clearly evolution

We are at a midway station

In a revolution

2

Freedom lets us pick and choose

The values that we live by

Often though we pick and lose

And let the good pass by

3

Now grace is like a force beyond

A thing we can’t control

Perhaps a kind of divine bond

That works to make us whole

4

Thus Dostoevsky drew a line

Between freedom and grace

Freedom hardly was divine

Grace was Alyosha’s face

5

And human’s what Alyosha was

Alyosha unified

Grace and freedom one because

That’s how we’re to abide

6

When freedom says a heartfelt no

To choices terrible

And we let bad values go

Life can become controllable

7

Things will be more heavenly

Choice cleansed of much wrong

We’ll have better eyes to see

What was true all along

amazon.com/author/stephenrose