There’s coming a day when men will cry

Due to the evil deep inside.

They’ll gnash their teeth, in utter despair

From outer darkness, so please beware.

Learn from the rich man, who cries even now

If he could only escape somehow.

But all his riches could never suffice

To pay his way into paradise.

Lazarus, poor and full of sores

Ate the crumbs from the rich man’s floors.

From dawn until evening, he laid at this gate

Begging for food, which fell from a plate.

Death, touched both these men one day

But, Lazarus was carried up Abraham’s way.

Torments in flames, the rich man faced

No longer to receive God’s wondrous Grace.

A great gulf is fixed between Heaven and hell

That none shall pass, even those who fell.

Take heed to this warning and protect your soul

God’s only Son, to Him take hold!

© Copyright 2003 Dawn K. SmithAll rights reserved.

Inspired from reading Luke 16:19-31