IN THE ALMIGHTY I NOW ABIDE

I write this story on my death bed
Its a story of joy in pain
I experienced a miracle throughout my life
I burned from within while it rain

I was 15 when I met this girl
She was sweet and yet so smart
She replied yes to my proposal
She sounded like Mozart

One fine day in the evening rain
She left my hand forever
She left me and went to God’s palace
She left me to fight my own endeavour

A few years later I found a friend
He seemed to understand me well
We opened up a farm of our own
And money we made was swell

He then one day just walked away
And left me a humble note
“I leave now, never to come”
And that is all he wrote


In the middle of my life I found a child
Crawling under the midnight moon
I adopted him and gave him food
He grew up really soon

He then one day bought along a girl
A girl that he wanted as his wife
He said “Daddy, I wish to marry her,
I want her for one entire life”

He too left me to live alone
I found myself no where
When I looked back I saw a light
A light so simple and fair.

I then understood that throughout my life
It was God who accompanied me
In the form of a girl, in the form of a friend
And in the form of a little baby.

He came to my rescue when I once prayed
“God give me a reason to live”
He found me on the highway of life
And gave me a comfortable lift.

I now regret not recognising him
I wish I had many more years to go
I wanted to show him my love for him
But I guess he will never know

But then I lie in this bed of mine
Where I remember my mother’s words
“God goes in search for that one lost sheep
While leaving the entire herd.”

I can proudly say that I lived my life
With God walking by my side
My soul now stands near my mortal body
In the Almighty I now abide.


- Kenneth Savio Fernandes