If I Should Die Tonight

 note: Following today's post, I will take my usual holiday break. I'll be back in January with a brand new series. Today's post is a snatch of poetry. Between blog series, I like to throw some in. This particular piece was written when I was sixteen. I'm a different man now than I was then in many ways but I still have this same desire - I want my life to count for Christ. 

If I Should Die Tonight

 

If I should die tonight

I wish in someone’s heart

Would be a bit of sadness

Because we had to part

 

If I should die tonight

I wish in someone’s eye

A tear or two would form and drop

Because I was not nigh

 

If I should die tonight

I wonder, would they care?

The ones my life has touched

Would they notice I’m not there?

 

If I should die tonight

Would someone cry for me?

Would I be missed on this old earth

Would some weep bitterly?

 

If I should die tonight

Would my presence be sore missed?

Have I influenced enough of them

Am I on someone’s list?

 

If I should die tonight

Would someone say, “Oh no,

A force for right is gone from sight”

Would someone care below?

 

Oh, God, please help me live

While under this sun’s light

That some would care that I had gone

If I should die tonight