Sinner's lament

We choose our path, we walk it long
and sadness lasts and lingers on,
For when we choose the path of sin
it leads us far away from Him.
We thought it good, we thought it fine,
we wasted the precious gift of time.
Now we've arrived on Heaven's shore
only to find a closed door.
And we cry, and we wail
and we weep bitterly
"why oh why did I fail
    to love and embrace Thee?"

So like the rich man who lived in luxury
only to find Hell was his destiny,
I pray these words, meager though they be
will somehow open your heart's eyes to see -
You must with all that is in you, quite sincerely
turn to Jesus now and cry out for mercy,
for to wait to cry out later is to fail miserably
for where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth
is where you'll forever be.....