Friday April 13th 2018

Friday April 13th 2018

Has become a day for remorse.
Life's journey, on a new course

The Grim Reaper, knocked on his door.
Life, as he once knew it, to be never more.

Hopes dashed upon the jagged edges of life
as this reality fills these hours with rife

thoughts, this life has reached an end.
An adventure around the next bend,

An exploration into a transition. 
A Soul, from this plane, in submission

as it sojourns from all the pain,
body, spirit suffered on this plane.

Is this Friday April 13th, a bad luck day?
or one we look forward to and pray?,

that this loss should not be of sadness,
but reason for celebration and gladness.

For now, he may go back to the essence
of what he once was and in colescence,

become one with himself, without regret
for those that plagued, caused him to fret

as he traversed this, his last road
without the weight of his heavy load.

This coming July, will we come to smile?, 
as we recall and walk with him , his last mile.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Fond memories, carry we must

as we all come together and reminis 
about a Father, an Uncle, a man we will miss!

Well these memories evoke?
Will throats tighten and choke

back a torrent of  tears,
now, to alleviate the fears.

Friday the 13th, 2018, the year
mortality, touched, was so near.

B. J. “A” 2
April 13th, 2018

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018



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Date: 4/28/2018 8:25:00 PM
Hello William Friday the 13th,lots of people believe that day is bad luck. my girlfriend,won't get into a red car. Or step out the door. I do not believe in the bad luck of Friday the 13th. i like the black cat that has a bad name because of Friday the 13th. have a nice evening my friend.
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Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 4/29/2018 8:21:00 PM
What is on your web site? Can you tell me?
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Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 4/29/2018 4:50:00 PM
Thank you for telling me. I will try your web site. Later.
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William J. Jr. Atfield
Date: 4/29/2018 12:24:00 PM
Wm. J. Atfield Jr. bja2mgmenter@gmail.com Sunday, April 29th, 2018 at 10:24 AM Good morning Darlene De Beaulie : Thank you Darlene, for taking the time to stop by my site, for reading my stuff and for your comments . Like you “ Friday the 13th. ” has no sway upon any events that day may inflict upon my life. “ Friday the 13th. ”, is just a way to show how superstitious man kind is . Its origins “ At dawn on Friday, 13 October 1307 (a date sometimes linked with the origin of the Friday the 13th superstition) King Philip IV ordered de Molay and scores of other French Templars to be simultaneously arrested. ... ”, “ From the 1890s, a number of English language sources relate the "unlucky" thirteen to an idea that at the Last Supper, Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, was the 13th to sit at the table. ” . You to have a great day !!! B. J. “A” 2 {{ Bill . }}
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