Gideon's Bible

I felt sad and very depressed To that fact to all I had confessed, My life was literally falling apart I now owned and nursed a broken heart. Today I went and I rented a room in a hotel Truly I felt like all hell, I decided that I was going to end it all "Goodbye"! was going to be my final call. I was on my very last walk As then to myself I just began to talk, I had no friends as I solemnly cried No one there was ever at my side. I had no one to walk with or to talk to And no one to ever say, "I love you", As I headed back to the room where I was staying Then I started praying. I was walking alone sadly after dark I then saw tulips in the park, As I then headed back to my hotel room I then thought of the flowers in bloom. Then into my hotel room I uncaringly walked I was suicidal as I thought and cried and never balked, I decided to write my farewell note "Goodbye, I am all alone" is all I wrote. Then as I opened the nightstand drawer Inside where the pencils and paper they did store, There I found what I truly did need I found a Gideons Bible for me to read. The rest of the night that book I read I felt no more loneliness or sadness or dread, And then when the morning had arrived That night, because of the Lord's love I survived. In the morning from my hotel room I left I no longer felt bereaved, destitute or bereft, The note that I wrote was no longer part of my soul I took back the note, and the Gideon Bible I stole. Randy L. McClave