I Saw Richard Crying

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