wide eyed child (a poem written early 2005)

Wide Eyed Child
(prov 6:1-5)

I found today
The word of the Lord
That would have saved me
Had it found me
Before my dangerous naivety.

The sting of a painful realisation
Of my own illusion
Makes room for amore helpful
Dose of understanding, repentance, forgiveness and exaltation.

God is good, all the time
His word is life
For those who are blessed to receive it.

Now I ask
For his light, his spirit to supply
To my ability to lose myself
In what is only relatively urgent, marginally important,
So that I might read
Daily drops of dew to keep me alive
In a world of wolves
Dressed as little lambs
And traps set on every corner
For this wide eyed child.