I Saw Richard Crying Poem by Randy McClave

I saw Richard crying
And it wasn't because of someone dying,
Or because someone was sick or took ill
Or because someone did kill.
I saw him in both sadness and tears
And it wasn't because of pain or fears,
Or not because someone was in pain
Or even because it started to storm and then began to rain.
He was crying from a true story
About an old woman talking to a young boy,
Where the lad was telling her of his religion
But, of course the old woman wouldn't change her belief a smidgen.
He was indoctrinated by the belief that he had
She felt so much sorrow and she was so very sad,
He didn't believe in Jesus as she did
What she heard in his religion she did profoundly forbid.
The lad had come knocking had her front door
And he wanted to share a scripture as he did at the house before,
And she felt so sorry for his goal
Which that belief would cost the lost lad his very soul.
Richard heard the story and the old lady and why she cried
Because unto the boy a false doctrine was lied,
Richard also knew and believed what the Bible and Jesus did tell
So they cried, because the boys false belief would send him to Hell.

Randy L. McClave