Don’t Wait – A Poem About Living Regret Free

And About Honoring People Now, Not At Their Funerals

     
When I am dead, forget me friend,
     For I shall never know
If o’er my cold and lifeless form
     your bitter tears do flow.
That, eloquent with praise, you voice
     the debt you owe the dead,
Or with fine phrases speak of love
     oh, speak them now instead.
 
What saints we are when we lie dead
     but what’s the use… Continue reading →

If Tomorrow Never Comes

A Poem About Not Having Any Regrets

 
If I knew it would be the last time
That I’d see you fall asleep,
I would tuck you in tighter
and pray the Lord, your soul to keep.
 
If I knew it would be the last time
that I see you walk out the door,
I would give you a hug and kiss
and call you back for one more.
 
If I knew it would… Continue reading →

THE MUSIC FROM BEYOND

 
Have you ever heard
Music, as it were,
From another world?
It couldn’t be from here —
Nothing like this was ever heard
 
Anywhere, anytime on this earth,
Except, perhaps at the Savior’s Birth!
No one but I could hear it,
But I was undeterred…
 
When I first heard this music,
This world began to slowly slip away,
And I knew for certain,
I didn’t want to stay,
 
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When This Passing World Is Done

By Robert Murray McCheyne, 1837

 
When this passing world is done,
When has sunk yon glaring sun,
When we stand with Christ in glory,
Looking o’er life’s finished story,
Then, Lord, shall I fully know,
Not till then, how much I owe.
 
When I hear the wicked call,
On the rocks and hills to fall,
When I see them start to shrink,
On the fiery deluge brink,
Then, Lord, shall I fully… Continue reading →