PHANTOM FATHER 

Phantom father left behind, where a man was stealthed away;

To take his place, to fill his space, his church a thief in the night.

A man has been stolen, from his family unawares;

All done in good conscience, no damage to repair.

Life is like a lesson plan, a teacher might prepare;

But some lessons take a lifetime to learn,

When the church is a thief in the night.

A family is like a book, upon its pages are written the chapters of our lives.

The book's binding represents the father, which gives it strength;

And the pages are the children.

The book's cover represents the family's mother,

Which provides protection for the pages inside.

Now a book without a cover, we all know, will not last very long,

Soon becoming tattered and torn, and battered by life's storms.

But if the binding ever comes undone, the pages all fall out.

For the Spirits of God must prick the heart, to pull through the scarlet thread of Christ.

From front to back, from page to page, a book’s binding must be sewn;

To jointly fit together, a book or a family, that will never come apart.

Phantom father left behind where a man was stealthed away,

A family lost when it’s discovered, his children would never exist...

RbM