Soul Know

What do we know of why the soul begins
or when it starts or how it came to be?
I don't much know this vessel of my sins,
my spiritual epistemology.

O God, what does my soul look like to You?
I fear it doesn't look so good to me.
What makes its goodness and its beauty true,
my spiritual iconography?

God holds me in His hand, I hold my soul,
no one will ever steal this soul from me;
but worldly complications take their toll,
my dreaded spiritual hypocrisy.

God's image gives my soul its dignity,
then, faithfully kept, its blessed destiny.

                         -- by Pete Voelz       12/05