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If it were up to only you

where would you draw the line?

Who would be given a second chance?

How would judgement be defined?

Could you control your anger

or would you simply start again?

Would you reserve your pardon

just for family and for friends?

Who would pay to repair

the damage that was done

and heal the wounds of the innocent

or raise the dead - if that could be done?

If living was forever

in your control and in your hands

how would you regard those who ignored you?

Could you understand?

Would the limits of your compassion

reach their breaking point at last?

Would you demand each one to stand and account

for the words and thoughts of their past?

If truth had been completely hidden

and you were the only one who knew

how would you shine light in the darkness

if it were up to only you

“. . . because the darkness is past, and the

true light now shineth.” (1 John 2:8)