death loses

When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”

“O death, where is your victory?

O death, where is your sting?”

1 Corinthians 15:54-55

Mortality is what

we live and know

all around us

life will show

us: birth, growth, decay, then death.

And all of us

will see one day

our own physical bodies

start the decay

with sickness, pain, limitations, then death.

Nobody escapes

the effects of the curse

we grow older

and go from bad to worse

knowing birth, life, entropy, then death.

But Jesus halts

the sad refrain

there is eternal life

to all who believe His name

He came to give life and change death.

A better hope

For all whom Jesus chooses

they gain so much more

as ultimately, death loses

with new birth, new life, death, then eternal life!