"Second Rate Love"

So many times when all alone
my heart feels sad and bare...
'tis then I wonder HOW God loves
and if He really cares...
If he is LOVE, and dwelleth in
the Saints of all the ages...
why can't they show me how He loves?
Instead I feel their rages!
I guess I'll never understand
how "friends" can seem so dear...
and yet when things go very wrong
these friends are not so near.
It seems to me that love is cruel
and hearts are cold as steel...
I wonder what GOD it is they serve,
or if He's even real...
If THIS is how their God is love...
I wish they then would hate.
What kind of treatment could be worse!
For their love is SECOND RATE!

Ramona L. Wood(Sharp)FEB 23, 1993