Proper 28
Poems
A GOSPEL TREASURY
Poems Based on Lectionary Gospels
Who knows when it will happen
that the end of time will come?
It seems meaningful to many
and irrelevant to some.
But, should it come while I’m alive,
’Twill come as a surprise.
For no one knows the day or hour
or has the least surmise.
Though many play the numbers game
and think they have the key,
that time is still God’s secret
and it ever more shall be.
However, I am not concerned,
for I am well aware,
no matter what some folks may say,
my ignorance they share.
There’s really just one answer,
if you really want to know:
and that’s to live each day as if
today’s the day to go.
that the end of time will come?
It seems meaningful to many
and irrelevant to some.
But, should it come while I’m alive,
’Twill come as a surprise.
For no one knows the day or hour
or has the least surmise.
Though many play the numbers game
and think they have the key,
that time is still God’s secret
and it ever more shall be.
However, I am not concerned,
for I am well aware,
no matter what some folks may say,
my ignorance they share.
There’s really just one answer,
if you really want to know:
and that’s to live each day as if
today’s the day to go.