My Last and Best Hope

...surely goodness and mercy will follow me all of my days and I will dwell in the House of the Lord, forever. Psalm 23:6 Shirley, Goodness and Mercy, angels three Have been following me all of my days. Constant companions spiritually, They're seamstresses trying to mend my ways. Shirley surveys a narrow path but I stray. Goodness (a bit slow) is left far behind. Off I wander down my heathen pathway, Never caring but for what pleasure I find. Shirley growls fiercely, "Must you act the fool?" Goodness moans, "Why won't you listen to me?" The harder I try seems the less I can rule Myself, so if I lose two of the three-- I still hope to dwell in the House of the Lord, So Mercy, I pray, will pay room and board.