'Poem For: Indiana's Praying Robber' ('A Lesson Learned') Poem by Linda Winchell

Feel like you’ve been pushed in a corner?
Hanging on the end of your life’s rope?
Don’t give up…and do something foolish
It will only rob you and keep one…spiritually broke.

God knows what you are going through
He feels all your confusion and your pain.
His promise to always be there through it all
Is God’s promise… and our true spiritual claim to fame.

Holding a gun to someone’s head
Demanding what… was never rightly yours.
Is the hardest of life’s lessons taught
And only prison time… is all you’ve earned.

Forgiveness of another… may come easy
But forgiving ones self…now that ones hard.
You’ll find your lesson… learned my friend
Served now… behind some metal prison bars.

The world has now viewed you
Down upon… your knees.
Begging a strangers’ forgiveness
Asking she and God…”Forgive me… Please? ”

Whatever the outcome ends up being
God and the world have heard your cry.
Only time will tell your fate my friend
And the world will know…. God’s reason why.


By: Linda Winchell
Copyright: 2009
**Dedicated to: Gregory Smith;
The Praying Robber