Shall It Be Today

Shall it be today? Amongst a crowd I love, yet hardly know, Shall you enter my solitary gate? Or will I sigh with sinking heart and soul, Knowing you hold the key, But have never known it. . . Tell me one thing - shall it be today? Will I lift my head to see you there, With sparkling eye and beaming face, Like long ago, when oblivion surrounded me, And forced open my gates for my own good, Fusing two different minds together I ask yet again - shall it be today? Patience for years has brought me more than tears, For well I know you will be away once more, And the chance for your sunshine flees fast, Making way for clouds of suspended gloom - Reminding me once more, nothing we speak, -Though we are in the same room! Shall it be today! My love, my friend, my light! Most pass my entrance with averted eye, Yet somehow I feel you lingering by. . . At a distance still, I feel you move closer As tomorrow grows ever bolder Be today, be my rock that I cling to See my hand reach for you, and take it I will whisper what you have always known. . . And you will know where His hand has shown Agape love forever in present's grasp ---- Agape - greek term; the highest of the four types of love in the Bible ; - sacrificial love that is unconditional