LONG WALK HOME

LONG WALK HOME


My Father, I am Your child.
You sent me to this earth
So that I may serve You well
And prove to You my worth.

Though I have followed Your path
I have been tempted, too.
But even in temptation,
I have remembered You.

This sojourn is now complete.
I’ve almost lived my life
Bearing in equal measure
Pleasure as well as strife.

To You now I must return.
But in darkness I roam,
Father, show me light, hold my
Hand on this long walk home.



* Written in abcb, 7-6-7-6 format
* For a reader’s query about this poem and my response, see AM I A WORTHY CHILD? IS SUCH A QUERY UNCHRISTIAN?—"AM I A WORTHY CHILD? IS SUCH A QUERY UNCHRISTIAN?" 


M C Gupta
21 September 2003