Benefits Forgotten

Mortal - the ungrateful wretch, Taking all things as one's due Inflated with incurable pride Fell-ingrate - unaware That oblivion is a deadly crime... Frightful knave - unknowing Of the treasure of docile ape (Of the treasure of docility And fitting teachability...) Crocked with the pursuit Of lechery and pleasure With infected mind and defiled hands Enslaver of darkness Embracer of vice Against the disarming And soothing Light, Unguided by the deathless wealth Of meekness and innocence, stays unlearnt, A stranger to the vastness of debt And unbounded fire of the Cross, Deaf to fidelity and care Lavishly given from the abode Of the Author of love...