The Parables of Jesus in Rhymes

The Ten Brides

WHAT IS GOD’S KINGDOM GOING TO BE LIKE
WHEN THE END OF TIME WILL COME NEAR?
IT WILL BE LIKE TEN ANXIOUS BRIDES
WAITING FOR THEIR GROOM TO APPEAR.

THEY ALL WENT OUT CARRYING THEIR OIL LAMPS,
FIVE HAD SOME EXTRA OIL AND FIVE HAD NOT
BUT IT WAS LATE, THEY WERE TIRED OF WAITING
FELL ASLEEP AND WOKE UP AROUND MIDNIGHT.



THEY HEARD THAT THE GROOM WAS NEAR
AND TURNED THEIR LAMPS ON TO SEE HIM.
FIVE OF THE LAMPS WOULD GIVE THE LIGHT
BUT THE LAMPS OUT OF OIL WENT DIM.

THE FOOLISH GIRLS ASKED THE WISE ONES
“GIVE US SOME OF YOUR OIL, OUR LAMPS ARE DOWN!
WE CAN’T, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR ALL OF US
GO AND BUY SOME OIL FOR YOURSELVES IN TOWN.”

THE GROOM CAME WHEN THE GIRLS WERE GONE
AND NOT BEING THERE, HIS ARRIVAL THEY MISSED
BUT THE WAITING BRIDES WITH THE WORKING LAMPS
WERE TAKEN BY THE GROOM TO THE WEDDING FEAST.

LATER THE OTHER GIRLS CAME BUT THE DOOR WAS SHUT
AND THEY KNOCKED BEGGING “PLEASE, LET US IN!”
THE GROOM WOULDN’T LET THE FOOLISH BRIDES ENTER
“I DON’T KNOW YOU, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?”

SINCE WE DON’T KNOW THE DAY OR THE HOUR
WHEN JESUS COMES FOR THE CHURCH, HIS BRIDE,
WE ALWAYS HAVE TO BE READY TO MEET HIM
AND LIVE FOREVER IN HEAVEN BY HIS SIDE.