A Poem A Day, №5

June 19th, 2017

The Lord and I

I dreamt I was walking with Jesus, along a quiet beach

But when I looked back at where he had walked, I noticed that

At the hardest times of my life, there was only one set of footprints in the sand

Rather than two

I asked the Lord why this was

Why, I said, when my life was the most difficult, did you leave me on my own?

Why did you abandon me when I needed you most?

He smiled and said, My Son,

I love you and would never leave you

Those times when you see only one set of footprints in the sand,

It is when we were both hopping

Because we had stepped on a bluebottle

And then Jesus and I wee’d on each other’s legs.