One Man Finds The Way
Walking the streets on a cold dark night.
Avoiding the light. Not looking for a fight.
Thinking about the way things should have been.
Is this the way things are going to end?
I see the flash of a neon light.
It’s brilliant colors split the night.
I wonder how many others are led astray?
There has got to be a better way.
I hear a sound like nails scraping a wall.
A tree limb rubbing a building in the wind is all.
A dog growls, a cat squeals.
He runs with the dog on his heels.
When I was young I had big dreams.
The world is not what it seems.
It twists you and drags you down.
The older you get the more you frown.
It’s sick. It’s sinful. it’s hateful and foul.
The world has lost it’s way somehow.
So I walk through it’s carcass late at night
feeling dead inside. Too tired to fight.
No one can right all the wrongs.
It has gone on way too long.
Why must we live in such misery?
Such hopeless delusions and mystery?
I have searched for an answer.
A way to save me from this cancer.
There was nothing that wasn’t tainted.
It twisted my mind until I fainted.
I fell to my knees and cried out:
“Save me from this sin that’s all about.”
Suddenly, I heard a still quiet voice.
“I am always with you. It’s your choice”
I looked around. No one could be seen.
“What is this? Some kind of a dream?”
The voice said: “Look in the garbage can.”
I stayed there, though I almost ran.
Inside the can, on top of the trash,
was a Holy Bible someone had stashed.
“Pick it up. Take it home. Read it.”
The voice said with emphasis on “it.”
I did exactly what ‘the voice’ said.
Everything I read went straight to my head.
Soon I realized ‘the voice’ that was speaking
was Jesus Christ. I started weeping.
I fell on my knees & prayed for forgiveness.
I asked to be saved, as God is my witness.
A peace like no other came over me.
I knew the way to change the world, you see.
One man, called Jesus, could bring the change.
I’ll tell the world about His wonderful name.
I walk in the light now and show others the way.
This world WILL be made new in that great day.
——————————————————R. W. Johnson—–(2013)