Life Sentence
We’re doing time on planet earth,
our sentence started right at birth
The sentence is, we’re here for life
and with mistakes it will be rife
The sentence cannot be commuted –
We’re here ‘til to dust we’ve been transmuted
We’re sentenced here with other lifers
& follow each our own Pied Pipers
We walk our paths from birth to death
marking time with each drawn breath
& when our sentence comes to end,
we hope to heaven we’ll ascend
Where, free from being bound in time,
we’ll start to know a joy sublime
And see that real life never dies –
we just transform like butterflies
We’ll lay aside our outer shells
and rise above our private hells
Copyright © Rev. Rebecca Guile Hudson | Year Posted 2005
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