Choose Your Story

It is possible to serve the light
For your own sake?
To be 
Dark inside,
Filthy with secret pride
While outwardly stacking up
Your achievements, 
Allowing others
To laud your name, 
And never once realizing
That your soul is lost,
Not in gross immorality,
But in the actor’s game
The hypocrites play.
Listen closely
To yourself.
Is your story one of redemption?
Or is it the hero’s myth?
They are not the same story.
I have a deep distrust for the latter
And an unfailing affection for the former.
So don’t tell me how you slew the dragon.
Tell me about the dragon inside of you.
That’s the story I long to hear
Because he lives inside me too,
And it is all I can do
With the help of God
To find my way.