The Ultimate Loss

Just what in the world are you focusing on?
Is it what will soon pass away and be gone?
Do you spend all your life concerned with this time,
And the treasures of earth...not worth a dime?
They're only delusions that absorb and demand
All the time of your life...that very small span.
So when it's all over, all vanished like smoke,
Will they linger in thought as a very cruel joke?
Those things that you sought, which held such attraction,
Will turn out to be a deceitful distraction
To lure you away with much the same lie
That the Devil told Eve...saying she would not die...
And she'd be like God, get to make her own choice,
And go her own way, in her own self rejoice.
So why be restricted? Who gives an account?
Why pay any attention to "The Sermon on the Mount?"
Why eagerly seek God through His Holy Word?...
Because, if you live as if you never heard
That He tells you to follow and take up your cross,
In the end you will suffer the ultimate loss.

Carolyn Irene Pinon