THE FINAL DAY

By Author Paul Hughes

“The Final Day” was written during the 1980s, when Paul was questioning how people often treated others poorly during their life, then worried about their Afterlife options near their end.

THE FINAL DAY

When you go unto your grave, 

You’ll pray the Lord your soul to save.

As you lie on your death bed,

Reflecting on the Life you’ve led,

What you recall will then dictate

The future path your soul will take.

Will it be that you are blessed

With eternal peace and happiness?

Or will the fiery demons wild

Claim the soul that you defiled?

At your grave will be too late.

The life you’ve led will decide your fate.

You know not when your end will be,

So judge today as the start of eternity.

In your life, have you been true to others,

Treating them equally as sisters and brothers?

Despite their wealth, or race, or creeds,

Have you helped them to fulfill their needs?

Reflecting on the years you’ve led,

Have you caused others tears to shed?

Without compassion for mankind,

Rejected the weak, the poor, the blind?

Did you mock the blind man’s plight,

When perhaps you could have been his sight?

Of all the people you did meet,

How many did you freely greet?

In your passionate fury wild,

Did you spawn an unwanted child?

Did you show compassion when it was needed?

All this will count when your case is pleaded.

When you look back on your life,

Do you see only hate and strife?

Is misery what your life generated

Because your love for mankind abated?

In your final years it may be too late

To avoid damnation as your soul’s grim fate.

In his or her image, God made your mould.

As you repay the debt, be bold

Enough to give freely of yourself,

Squander not your time, or your material wealth.

Your envy, greed and treachery

Must be destroyed if you seek eternity.

The path is clear, you must rectify

The wrongs you’ve caused before you die;

You must replace your hate with love,

If you seek peace with God above.

Heed this message, you have been warned,

It will be too late when your final day has dawned.

© Paul Hughes