THE MATRIARCH

 
                ONE MOMENT SHE WAS ON A PLANE
                AND ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE WAS HERE
                WHATEVER HAPPENED, IT WAS QUICK
                ADDING ANXIETY TO HER INSTANT FEAR

                SHE WONDERED ABOUT HER HUSBAND
                HE SAT BESIDE HER ON THE PLANE
                SUDDENLY THE PLANE WENT DOWN
                FOR REASONS SHE COULDN’T EXPLAIN

                SHE REMEMBERED WHEN THE PLANE HIT
                AND THE MASSIVE BALL OF FIRE
                SAW SPIRITS RISE FROM THE FLAMES
                DRESSED IN HEAVENLY ATTIRE

                NOW IN DARKNESS SHE’S ALL ALONE
                BURNING IN AN INVISIBLE FLAME
                ALL AROUND HER WAILING AND STENCH
                WITH NO ONE BUT HERSELF TO BLAME

                TERRIFIED, SHE CRIES OUT TO GOD
                BUT IF HE HEARD HER SHE CAN’T TELL
                INSTEAD A VOICE SPEAKS IN HER EAR
                “YOU’VE DIED AND GONE TO HELL!”

                “I MISSED THE RAPTURE?” SHE CRIED
                “HOW CAN THAT POSSIBLY BE TRUE?”
                “I SPENT ALL OF MY TIME AT CHURCH
                DOING ALL THAT I WANTED TO DO.”
                
                “I SANG SOLOS AND WAS IN THE CHOIR”
                “TAUGHT BIBLE SCHOOL IN THE SPRING”
                “WAS IN CHARGE OF THE FOOD PANTRY”
                “DOESN’T THAT COUNT FOR ANYTHING?”

                “I ADMIT I COULD BE A LITTLY NOSY”
                “JUDGED PEOPLE BY WHAT THEY WORE”
                “NEVER PUT ANYTHING IN THE OFFERING”
                “OFFENSES, I ALWAYS KEPT SCORE”

                BIBLE STUDIES, SHE ALMOST NEVER WENT
                ALWAYS HAD BETTER THINGS TO DO
                COULDN’T WAIT FOR SERVICE TO BE OVER
                GET OUT FROM UNDER THE PASTOR’S VIEW

                

                SHE WAS ALWAYS ABLE TO PORTRAY
                THE PERSON SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN
                A GODLY MATRIARCH OF HER CHURCH
                ON SOMEONE YOU COULD SURELY DEPEND

                SHE COULD REMEMBER PASTOR PREACHING
                “YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN”
                “WHEN THE RAPTURE HAPPENS YOU’RE STILL HERE
                WHAT WILL YOU DO THEN?”
                
                SHE KEPT PUTTING IT OFF UNTIL LATER
                BECAUSE SHE WAS HAVING TOO MUCH FUN
                AND NOW THE RAPTURE HAS HAPPENED
                HER ETERNAL DESTINY HAS JUST BEGUN

                FOR HER PILOT WAS A CHRISTIAN
                HE WAS GONE WHEN THE PLANE FELL
                HER PROCRASTINATION HAS COST HER
                AND HER REWARD IS NOW IN HELL!