(written 1999)
Is life so important from the day we are born,
that we strive ever onward to at last die forlorn?
We throw out youth for responsibility,
and forsake childhood for maturity
and ever are we sad and longing to go
back to the good ol’ days of long ago.
Is life so important every day we live
that we spend every moment and do not give,
a moment to assess what it costs to live
in a ruthelss world that does not forgive?
For ever are we sad for we cannot pay
the cost of the living that we spent today.
To live is important we all can agree
but how to live properly we strive to see
for we are blinded as the years go flying by
blinded by that empty tear in our eye
“Hurry up and live” the world cries aloud.
“Hurry up and live” murmurs the crowd.
So on we live, so fast, so loud!
Like thunder as it rolls from cloud to cloud,
ignoring the rain as it falls from on high
swiftly falling in a darkening sky
To be the thunder that shakes the bone
is the very thunder that cries alone.
There is a rush that we all live for
the timeless speed that bars the door
the door of our lives to keep time out
the time of our lives that eventually runs out
To live in a timeless moment is what kills
the very moment of time that our life fills.
For time cannot be caught when it is gone
it cannot be bought, it cannot be pawned
it cannot be spent on credit card
and be paid off by working so hard
For our days are few and are beyond price
so redeem them through the blood of Jesus Christ.
-JHJ