The Past Undone

The things I've done can't be undone, they're gone,
the time I did them in has slipped away,
though often their effects go on and on,
so much of what is past remains today.
If wrongs I've done somehow live after me,
and my good deeds lie mostly with my bones,
they also lie in God's great memory,
for when we pray, He gives us bread, not stones.
So if I pray His mercy and repent,
He will undo the wrongs that I have done,
while He'll enhance the good that I present,
my sins He'll take and send beyond the sun.
O God, I know I cannot change the past,
but You can make it all be good at last.

                                -- by Pete Voelz         5/09