Deprived of Your Love

Deprived of Your Love Deprived of Your love since the dawn of time O Lord, I wander in wild wilderness As as I committed a villainous crime That ignited the fire of Your wildness. Seduced by a sly slithering serpent I yielded to charms of the outlawed fruit, My mind turned to a welter of torment Urging me my burning feelings to suit. Now ejected from Your sacred garden I roam in forests of desolation With thirst, hunger, fear and despair smitten, Without any dim hope for salvation. I have to fight against beasts of all kinds For survival of the very fittest Against wilful wild winds and rains combined Against snow frost, cold as never witnessed. At times I have to battle with my kind To pinch, plunder and pocket nature`s gift Without any twinge or an axe to grind And often with my own peers to wedge a rift. At last drawn down with deadening despair At Your shrine I pray for Your forgiveness For Your leniency, mercy, love and care As sinful son to Father with kindness. Filled with the shining light of compassion Moved by the milk of mercy, as Father You launch to earth Your only divine Son To teach every man to live as brothers. Though nailed on the cross from His head to toes Your Son forgives the shrewd sly scornful hands, Though flagged and stamped with sores on His body He absolves those who spike a divine man. Now I am turning over a new leaf, Repent and cleanse my soul life after life Wipe my self tainted with the tan of towering grief And scour my spirits soiled with seams of strife.