Number 83, The simple answer to everything.

The simple answer to everything.

For those for whom there is no God,
Who’ll leave this life quite on their Tod,
Never knowing what or why,
Made them live and made them die;
They missed a very simple thing,
That into many lives can bring,
A comfort and a way to be,
That isn’t all that hard to see.

Despite the bible being thick,
And full of words, it’s not a trick;
It has been said so many times,
I’ll even say it in my rhymes;
Have you really never heard,
That God is just a simple word?
All around, below, above;
God is nothing more than Love.
And if you understand that well,
The message Jesus Christ did tell,
Was love, and love and then some more;
Help your neighbour, don’t make war.

Help in every tiny way,
Think of helping every day,
Put all others, everyone;
Equals all under the sun.
No-one to better, nor to beat,
No-one to conquer, nor to cheat,
Only love and help, be kind,
And one day we all will find;
That everyone is simply good,
And love’s what runs your neighbourhood!

Think about it long and hard,
About the things you know have marred
Your life perhaps, or spoiled the world,
As the days and years unfurled...
What common thing is there within;
Could it be something known as sin?

Sin encompasses a lot,
But there is one thing that it’s not;
That thing if everywhere applied,
Is love, and it can be relied
Upon to cure all of our ills,
But only when our hearts it fills.

Until the day when everyone,
Defaults to love, decides to shun
All selfish thoughts, all evil deeds;
Every human heart still bleeds.


© Stephen Saunders

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