Deny Yourself

For anothers cause, today I choose to die
I leave behind those things which exemplify
the me that I used to be
And now I choose to sacrifice myself,
not for my good
But for the good of someone else
This flesh that was given to me, I give it back
for truly it is not my own
And the things which it desires, the
fulfillment which it seeks, is wrong
So I die
Not today, not tomorrow, but
daily, I die daily that I might live
And in death I give up those things
which truly, have the potential to kill
I deny myself all the sick satisfactions
that elate my flesh
And I choose not what is good
but what is best
Ola Kelly

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