When I First Read the Bible

When I First Read the Bible

When I was a child

I decided to think awhile

One ideas that I had taken

From a book that had my mind awaken

On realms beyond black and white

Theories not seen within normal sight

Philosophies that perplexed my mind

Answers that nobody could find

With questions that hurt my head

Quotes important people had said

And at the end of that long book

When I needed not take another look

I was left with more than lesson

But only just one question.

And when I grew into a man at last

I left those childish objects in the past

And found a different path to follow

A way that was lifeless and solemnly hollow

Filled with unintentional greed hate

And by and by selfishness didn’t abate

And sadly enough my saving grace

Was the falling of my mothers beautiful face

Her body lay at deaths front door

Her countenance dropping to more and more poor

And when her chest could no longer heave

Her few last words were simply “Believe”

And what follow I have kept with me to this very day

Her body so fragile but said in such a bold way

“You know I love you and your father did too,

But please remember Your Father above doesn’t want to lose you

So please follow Him and see it all the way through,

And again you should know that I will always love you”

I believe her eyes were closed before she said the last words

And that night I could see so many different birds,

Under a blanket filled with a myriad of stars

And I remembered a verse that I had read behind bars

Proclaiming that I was one of those stars

And the childhood question that lay in the past afar

Came back that day and made me fall to my knees,

The simple question “Why does he so desperately love me”