Servant of God

Death has no conscience 
death has no friends. 
Every saint and sinner 
will be visited by him. 

Death hides in the wings 
just stalking his prey.
Death is your shadow 
only a heartbeat away. 

The rich and the famous 
the poor the unknown. 
They'll be no hiding place 
when God calls us home. 

Death will greet everyone 
for all things must die. 
Life itself will disappear 
in the blink of an eye. 

But deaths not the end 
death is nothing to fear 
For death is only a servant of God 
who leads us to heaven from here.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2025



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Date: 6/20/2025 11:24:00 AM
Hi John….. many here do not beliene in death? They think they will expire, but it is more like being just retired, they will rise up and choose a Second life….they will never die! There are agnostics here who question God’s existence. And of course, atheists who believe in no god! I know who they are. I wonder how we are so different!)) good poem Pangie
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Date: 6/17/2025 9:03:00 PM
A very deep and to me, a profound poem. I like your third stanza the best. Hate, love, forgiveness, sadness, joy, fear etc, will all return to God I believe when a person passes. Otherwise, where would they go? You can't hold them. Ethereal qualities that humans can't actually be buried with, but still make their way back to heaven. I'm glad I found this poem, a very lovely read.
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Date: 6/17/2025 12:43:00 PM
I enjoyed reading your "Servant of God" write. Great Ending... Death is Not the end. Hello Heaven... Have a blessed/wonderful day writing away.............
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Date: 5/18/2025 3:20:00 AM
A lovely poem brother John. No one lives forever, who would wish to anyway. Knowing that God leads us to His home in the sky, is a blessing to the world, you and I… Sis Beryl
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Date: 5/17/2025 8:23:00 PM
Love the message here, John. And it's TRUE. Death, like everything else, is but a message of and from God. Brilliant penning here. Thanks, Gershon
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Date: 5/17/2025 12:14:00 PM
Reverent poetry John, though my hope is in a future resurrection to a restored paradise earth
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Date: 5/17/2025 9:03:00 AM
- The shadow of death: you can't fool death... what comes after death is a question that has been debated for thousands of years, and there is no clear, scientifically confirmed answer, John... but several different opinions... - it's a good thing to believe in something beautiful :) - Lovely written :) - hugs
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Date: 5/17/2025 8:40:00 AM
Hi john, how very true My lifetme friend is gone as of 5/12 we were raised to value life…thats why our parents took us to many funerals. By now, we better know this may be our last day! So, live it well.there are trilliogone true,but we must be friends with the living, hug them, love them,our eternity is not now. “ Life is not a paragraph,death is no parenthesis”ee cummings,Pangie
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