The Good Shepherd !

I am the good shepherd and the good shepherd,
Lays down his life for his own loved sheep,
He owns sheep in his sheep pen and herd,
Heartless hireling's love only shallow not deep.

Hireling does not own the sheep, the wolf he sees,
The prowling wolf snatches the sheep to scatter,
The hireling is an hireling for at once he flees,
Leaving all the sheep in chaos and distress greater.

I know my own and my own is known of mine,
Me and my Father care for the sheep in our herd,
I have other sheep to bring to one fold,one line,
There will be one voice,one fold and one shepherd.

In love I lay down my life for the cause of my sheep,
For the same cause, I resurrect from the grave deep.

Footnote:
John10:11-18
Psalm 23:
The Lord is my shepherd;I shall not want.He maketh
me to lie down in green pastures.

Yesupatham Savarimuthu.