Sacred Awareness

If we, without Awareness of this Great and Awesome thing

Behold, and touch and taste the measure of daily living

And laugh the hollow laughter of the blind leading the blind

Seeking in desperation happiness and peace of mind

…if we shut out the Truth because the Truth is dark with fear

Still then, that Great and Awesome thing will never disappear

For Death, life’s single certainty is every man’s demise

That Great and Awesome Gateway to Hades or Paradise

And if we sadly stumble without Hope, our greatest boast

Then we are, above all men to be pitied the most

For life, this gasp of flesh and blood is not all there will be

Immutable the exchange; Time to Immortality

If we, without Awareness of the One who loves us so

He gave His only Son to die and save us from Hell’s woe

So that we may have Life and have it more abundantly

If we choose to reject The Gift of salvation full-free

…and if we choose to grovel in a most pathetic state

Quelling sacred Awareness of a Great and Awesome Gate

Then, though we gain the world and the cap-sheaf of human boast

We are above all humankind to be pitied the most

© Janet Martin

"You and I are souls", Peter reiterated frequently, "living in bodies".