If Life Ended Today
If life ended today,
nothing I would leave behind
but the fairest love I gave away;
and who wouldn't say I was too kind?
Looking back with disbelief and much dismay, I see the old, wretched me
overwhelmed by the lustful urges that
could have killed me before I had reached the promising age of thirty;
but the Lord spared me from wrath.
If life ended today,
with these hands no treasure
of any value I would attempt to take away...
considering salvation the worthiest measure.
My yesterdays were illusions of an unfulfilled desire
reflecting a cold, indirect light... and it certainly did not shine on me,
when onlookers stopped but refused to help me when I was stuck in mire;
to whom should I be thankful, if not to my merciful Lord who restored my dignity?
If life ended today,
no regrets would turn into grins,
remembering how wrong choices misguided my morality;
hope did not exist...it took repentance and faith to overcome my sins.
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