You Never Consider

Quietly I watch over you
I protect you, love you.
You go about every day
With no notice I am there.
Months, years pass by.
I never leave you.
I sustain you,
Comfort you.
You graduate in life from
One success to another.
You plan your days, years.
You are satisfied
With your gains and accomplishments.
You never consider once
How I graced you with them.
You are old, feeble.
You are alone,
Your friends deserted you.
You are aware of loneliness
Of abandonment.
You become bitter and angry,
Yet you don’t see me in your life.
The day comes for me to
Call you forth from life.
You enter the realm
Of timelessness.
You look up before me
Standing at my footstool
Of my throne.
You see my longsuffering
My patience and love.
You say, “Oh Lord I
Never knew! Forgive me!”
And I say with great sadness
“I loved you yet you
Ignored me. You coveted
Life over me. Now I must
Say go away from me _
I never knew you.”
How sad. We hear the Word,
The warning.
We don’t pay heed and lose
All thought of God.
Some find out too late.
My friend don’t wait –
Find Him now.