The Preacher Man's Book

There once was a boy about the age of thirteen,
Living what he thought to be a normal life,
Always talking honestly and acting clean.
He attended a school, Birmingham High,
His hopes of being a doctor soaring to the sky.
He realized there was always cliques at his school,
The jocks, the nerds, the cheerleaders, and the elite very cool.
There were also the rejects that had no group,
Living at a level no student dared to stoop.
One boy however stood out from all the crowds,
Never boasting, prideful, and loud.
He spoke of one simple act is all it took,
We always called him the boy,
The boy with the book.
He spoke of a man that died long ago,
Not a normal man, but one sent by God to show.
The man brought with Him love,
Love sent by His father above.
I had always teased this Bible thumper,
Until I realized something near the beginning of summer.
There was something this boy had,
And the absence of it seemed to make him quite sad.
The boy was different in so many ways,
Getting up each morning to sing God's praise.
The years have suddenly passed,
As they usually do, quite fast.
The two young boys had become young men,
With a couple more days to go until they had diplomas in their hands.
One boy was named most likely to succeed,
And that he had everything that he would need.
The other named preacher man,
The man with the Bible in his hand.
One may have been most likely to succeed,
Yet, the emptiness inside made his heart bleed.
He would give up everything for what the preacher man had,
He wanted to be like him and forever glad.
A memory came around about one decision that it took,
The one made possible in the preacher man's book.
Graduation soon rolled around,
With every senior awaiting that glorious sound.
It was the thing they had lived their school life for,
Congratulations to the class of 1984.
The preacher man came up to him and gave him a gift,
And all of a sudden, the weight on his heart was lift.
There sat a Bible, the preacher man's book,
And that day he made the only decision that it took.
Jesus Christ forgave his life that day,
The cost of his sins the blood of his savior did pay.
The preacher man warned him that the life ahead was not of ease,
But only one lived to appease.
He knew that in his future there would be plenty of strife,
But he knows that forever his name is written in the Book of Life.