MARY’S CHOICE TO MAKE

Those evil spirits of that fallen one
Exiled to earth, our human sphere, now seek
To human hearts inhabit that are weak
And seek to stand apart from God, alone.
For human strength is found upon those knees
That bow before the One who said, “Don’t eat;
You learn the truth while sitting at my feet,
For good and evil are my choice you see.”
But we, like Eve, here bow instead to hear
The one incarnate in that serpent’s life,
Who seeks to enter us with Devil’s strife
And rob us of our own good human cheer.
O Jesus, us incarnate and awake
Our conscience in us, Mary’s choice to make.