by Sherri Stevens

What influence are you under?
What spirit has your mind's control?
What thief or robber have you threatened?
What precious treasure have they stole?

Have you surveyed your soul lately?
Done an inventory of your life?
What's causing quarreling inside you?
What is the reason for your strife?

Have you found fulfillment within,
or is your deep abyss depressed?
Where is your hunger's satisfaction?
Where is your inner being's rest?

Give thought now to your ways!
You drink but never have your fill.
You eat but never have enough.
You put on clothes and are cold still.

All the counsel you've received
has only proved to wear you out.
Have your psychologists yet saved you
having heard your desperation's shout?

Yet you consult among the dead
on behalf of one who seeks to live,
when only one Man holds the key
and only He has life to give?

What have you gained from your hard labor?
Are you at the end yet of your rope?
Isn't now the time to reconsider
a new way of life and living hope?

You've watched your drug become your master,
slave-driven by your source of sorcery.
Aren't you your passion's favorite prisoner
chained by your will's captivity?

You've 12-stepped to many meetings,
but are your soul's cravings constrained?
Have you yet found a higher power
that keeps your restless flesh restrained?

Will you keep chasing after wind
in denial of your path's futility?
Or will answer your soul's question:
"Where is the Son to set me free?"

He who has the Son has life.
He who has not, he is without.
Are you a lamp indwelled by light?
Or is your spirit's bulb blacked out?