Guard Your Garden

Precious daughter Draw aside and sit with me awhile Let me give you wise counsel for your life Let a father’s voice ring in your ear One that knows your needs One that cares for you Who wants to guide you well And lead you in ways of life and blessing You want to be loved It is good that you do You do not ever have to give that up But you must be careful For not all that calls itself love Is really the love you seek There is a man who would come to you He would tell you that he loves you And he would seem to He would do many things for you He would seem to meet your need But he would also take from you Robbing your most precious gift He would seek to touch you Before he has given you his life This should not be so God did not make it this way You deserve better For the way that our Creator made it The way of a man and a maid Is for the man to lay down his life for you To give up himself Committing before God and man To love and protect you all of his days And count you more precious than himself Only then will he avail himself of your love Of that intimate touch from your body Your most precious gift to him That is how it was meant to be And there is no man Who deserves that gift Without honoring you first With his marriage vow And the offering of his life As an act of his love Only that man who does Is worthy of partaking of your gift The sweet offering of your body In tenderness and surrender So guard your garden, daughter Keep it for the one Who gives up his life for you Then you will know true love Real and sweet Tender and blessed by your King Stephen Pursell, 8/23/15