Given many talents
Little work to perfect.
Squandered in search of
Love, Importance, Respect

Given many gifts
Large and small.
Appreciation never lasting
If recognized at all.

So much time
Minutes, hours, days
Wandering through life
As if in a daze.

The Lord awaits
So patient and kind
Until masks are removed
No longer so blind.

Each given talents
And gifts and time.
Steps on the ladder
Toward heaven to climb.