Where art though?....Oh Shepherd...

where art Thou? oh Shepherd!
i've been looking for Thee, all day.
where art Thou? oh Shepherd!
i seem to have lost my way.

where art Thou? oh Shepherd!
wouldn't Thee take me to my fodder?
where art Thou? oh Shepherd!
doesn't Thee, wince at my hunger?


i know i 've come of age, i know i've run out of wool.
dumb i may seem, but i can understand things, i ain't no fool.
what made Thou let go of me,what made Thou to set me free;
could nothing else be, but Thy love for me.

long back, Thou stood by me, when they said, that i was the black one.
yesterday, Thou held me firm, knowing, that i was their chosen one.
i know, oh shepherd, Thou was left with no option.
Thou, had, either to let go of me, or see me, be their mutton.

Though led me away from murder, in that cold silent darkness;
Though left me to wander, in this strange, hostile wilderness.
tell me oh Wise One, the logic in setting these old limbs free?
when, since their time began, their destiny has been Thee.

come back MY Shepherd and take me Home.
i'd rather be cut in Thine Kingdom, than wither away in this freedom.
i wish to graze, to gaze one more time into Thine Holy Eyes.
i wish to play, to pray one last time, in Thine Paradise...

................................AMEN





Epilogue-- Has God (if there happens to be one), ever erred to fall in love with a life, and, sinned to spare it, of the agony of dying(if at all dying is an agony).

Or does Death, the inevitable, lie beyond the Realm of the Almighty??