Season For God

How evil is this world now 
and how Your heart 
must break... 

Can You look away 
when so many of Your jewels 
are stolen as darling hearts 
are broken? 

The most precious gem 
of innocence is plundered 
by wicked appetites 
who forgot the light. 

They dirty the glass 
and fracture the core. 
They buy and sell 
tarnished goods. 

For there is so much darkness 
in them that the coming 
of a light as glorious as Yours 
would vanquish it, 
with not a shadow of them 
to remain. 

And so will it be 
at the end of the age 
when You return to claim 
every jewel You ever made 
and restore every heart 
that was always Yours. 

You mend the shattered pieces 
You watched scatter 
without a blink. 

You heal every broken thing, 
and make all things clean. 

©2024, S. Naify