...existentialist angst: a footnote

Something else to cheer your day up...

Sonnet #24

They say ignorance is bliss, so they say,
They for whom issues of life feature not.
But what dread reality on that Day
Will face them: condemned forever to rot.
Do you not see it already at work;
This decay that is human existence?
Wake up! See the rest of forever lurks;
Failing to flee from death just makes no sense.
Oh, that you would soon from your stupor wake,
As rats on a doomed ship, run for safety
To Him who to a safe haven can take
All who trust and follow Christ Almighty.
        Only on this side of eternity
        Is life sweet under the death penalty.