A Self-Portrait Of One Alive | Scripturally Speaking

I ran across this recently. I had forgotten writing it. I was approaching my fiftieth birthday and consciously assessing the situation- not for simply who I was but for who I wanted to be, and hoped I would continue to be. I wonder now, was I unwittingly issuing the enemy a challenge? No matter… For God has set his King on Zion!

A Self-Portrait of One Alive

Approaching half a century,
Brazen red,
Cheering domesticity
Shattering complicity
Conquering adversity
Loving ferociously
Demanding humility
Reaching incessantly
Avoiding mediocrity
Wondering inadvertently
Thinking objectively
Caring compassionately
Hoping magnanimously
Living outrageously;
Blessed Undead.