Forgive This Absentee Poem by Michael P. Johnson

“Oh Lord, forgive this absentee –Eze.37: 23
Allow me seek Your face –2Ch.7: 14
Accept this prayer on bended knee –Mal.3: 4
Before Your throne of grace –Heb.4: 16


I know my God I’ve let You down – Da.9: 5
I know I’ve done You wrong –Ps.51: 4
Just like a fool I played the clown –.15: 13
And grieved You with my song –Lk.23: 41


I left the plough a little while –Lk.9: 62
But oh my God the pain –Ps.38: 17-18+Isa.26: 16-21
If you’d allow me reconcile –2Co.5: 20-21
I’ll never leave again -Lk.15: 32


Forgive the evil filth I’ve done –Jer.33: 6-9
Purge free my wicked mind –Ro.8: 6
I slapped the face of Christ Your Son –Lk.22: 63
Through sin that made me blind –Heb.6: 6+2Co.4: 4


Now just like Paul who’d lost his sight –Ac.9: 8
Nebuchadnezzar too –Da.5: 34-
Through suffering, I’ve seen The Light –Isa.26: 9
And know what I must do –Isa.48: 17


I must reveal my source of shame –Hos.5: 15
Must rid myself of sin –1Co.5: 7-8
For this my God I need Your Flame –1Co.3: 13
Your Holy Ghost within –Mt.3: 11+Lk.3; 16


This time I’ll serve no god but you! –Deut.5: 7
I’ve seen the devil’s lies –Isa.26: 13
So now my God I’ll stay You true –Jn.15: 4-10
Until this body dies –2Pe.1: 13-14


Lord free me from this lonesome jail –Ps.68: 6
Please cause this void to cease –Lk.16: 26
You take no joy when children fail –2Sa.14: 14
So please restore Your peace” –Jn.14: 27-Isa.26: 3-…