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Eternity Is a Very Long Time

So many things in life I'd like to know So little time for me to gather answers The tango, jerk, the bop, the boogaloo Were any of them favorites of Dancer? Mid-afternoon, an outside noise disturbs As I'm recording thoughts on my computer That bird keeps crowing "Cock-a-doodle-do" But never will a crow go 'Cock-a-rooster' We live for roughly eighty-some odd years But some don't even reach their adolescence Yet once they've reached accountability Forever will be judged from only seconds It matters not how many years you've served Ten trillion years, but, still, you're just beginning Much like a horse thief in the West except He's hung, there's pain and death, at least it's finished So, sixteen, thirty, fifty, eighty-three All go to hell who make the wrong decision Eternal punishment with no way out If this is true pray now and hope He'll listen And mold the punishment to fit the crimes Especi-al-ly those taught to love another Though Hitler was a monster through-and-through Eternity's a wee bit long to suffer

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