The apple hanging on the tree

Is as tempting as can be.

Many times you look to see

If one ripe apple has fallen free.

The owner of the tree is eighty-three

So you wonder if he has a memory ~

That last year you climbed the fence to see

If one of his apples was under the tree.

When you got across the fence to see

The old man was angry as could be.

Why would you steal an apple from the tree ~

When the old man was giving them for free?

Written by: Lena Ayer Kittrell

This poem is to show how foolish it is to try to earn your salvation

when it is a free gift from God to all who believe in His Son Jesus Christ.

Lena Ayer Kittrell