Poetic Verses
Without Hope
It was not so very long ago
I walked a slippery slope
While thinking only of myself
Alive but without hope.
Unwilling to consider them
The warnings I had spurned
I burned my candle at both ends
Hoping I would not get burned.
But with dangers lurking all around
A pain or sudden ache
I came to see quite clearly
That my soul could be at stake.
Knowing I was but one heartbeat
This side of eternity
Caused me to fully understand
That tomorrow might not be.
Then I began to ask myself
If I believed in hell
Or had I fallen for a lie
While under Satan's spell?
Oh, how those questions haunted me
And would not turn me loose
Because I knew what God demands
Which left me no excuse.
But thank God, I'm not going back
To walk that slippery slope
For with my feet on solid ground
I've reason now to hope.
I walked a slippery slope
While thinking only of myself
Alive but without hope.
Unwilling to consider them
The warnings I had spurned
I burned my candle at both ends
Hoping I would not get burned.
But with dangers lurking all around
A pain or sudden ache
I came to see quite clearly
That my soul could be at stake.
Knowing I was but one heartbeat
This side of eternity
Caused me to fully understand
That tomorrow might not be.
Then I began to ask myself
If I believed in hell
Or had I fallen for a lie
While under Satan's spell?
Oh, how those questions haunted me
And would not turn me loose
Because I knew what God demands
Which left me no excuse.
But thank God, I'm not going back
To walk that slippery slope
For with my feet on solid ground
I've reason now to hope.
