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Written In Stone

Your days are numbered from the time you were born Before you know it you blink and they're gone It is incumbent when finding you're an adult To select the right course, proceed, protest or join a cult For sooner than soon, the youthful spring disappears It dawns that you're old and it will move you to tears But what comes next might be most important of all When your eyes finally close comes the judgment call All the iniquitous things you had chosen to do Will then be paraded once more before you But it's then too late and what's done can't be changed It's Satan's stone where your acts are written and maintained So think about this when that Dybbuk sits on your shoulder And tell him "go back to Hell" before you get any older

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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Date: 5/29/2017 2:34:00 PM
Elizabeth, this is a different type of a couplet, you wrote. I could see scenes rushing in front of me as i was reading. You did well with this poem.
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Elizabeth Smith
Date: 5/29/2017 3:24:00 PM
Thanks Darlene. How insightful. I really appreciate it. That's sort of what I imagine myself.
Date: 5/9/2017 6:53:00 AM
Cause and affect, our lives are like that; integrity is doing the right thing when no one is watching.Good one Elizabeth.
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Date: 5/10/2017 6:48:00 PM
Thanks Phil. Most of us never give a thought to our everyday actions (me included) but I'm sure everything counts.
Date: 4/22/2017 8:03:00 PM
I had to look up dybbuk. A very true poem. Wish everyone thought of consequences of their actions. It's only by Gds grace and love we can face Him.
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Date: 4/24/2017 6:52:00 AM
I am so glad you liked it. I was afraid people would be put off but I did not mean to sound judgmental, just like you said, actions have consequences. Thanks so much, Ahmed

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