The wild predator and the mild easy prey in fact,
Make a weird, uneasy complement of a wild act:
Only for hunger,wrath, sport, or pride in the main;
For food, power, possession or vanity is it slain ;
Yet the rage and chase yond the bound is thrust,
Where no true reason nor use seems fair and just
While one kills the other to live and breed it strain
Need finds no seizing urge to wipe out in disdain
Quests, expedition, and crusade with tall a claim
Haven't left behind a great,noble and ideal name
Death is the be all and end all of every existence
And in the cycle,to dust returns the subsistence !
I strive to place God as the be- all and end- all of life
I know He watches over me as a caring father.
When storm clouds rise high in my sky,
I look up to Him for guidance.
He gives company in my loneliness,
Gives hope, when down in the ditch of despair.
As I walk in darkness, when I falter and fall
His gentle words keep ringing in my ears
“Come all you, who are thirsty
Come to the waters”- (Isaiah-55)
Yes, I turn to the living waters
And drink deep from the wellsprings of His love.
In my sojourn on this earth, his love pilots me
When storms rage fierce and breakers rise high,
I turn to Him who once rebuked the wind,
And calmed the waves of the tumultuous sea.
With childlike trust, I give my hand to God
And ask Him to hold it tight, never letting go.
God, l know, is pleased with my trust in Him
And my resolve to love all His creation.
Let every atom in me throb with His filling love
May it spurt like torrents to form gushing streams.
Miracle upon miracle, every day, every hour, every minute
Matters little what Laws of Nature are found in it
What to a certain mind-set is purely empirical
To a different persona is clearly a miracle
For just like believing, seeing's tied to perception
The mind's eye, the be-all and end-all of conception
In one room, a woman gives birth in a natural way
Yet I saw it happen midst a fireworks display
April 14, 2019
Entry in "Let's Have an Argument" contest
Sponsor: Kevin Shaw
I want to be
Your be all and end all.
I want your sun
To rise and set with me.
I want to be
Your beginning and your end.
I want to be, to you
All you are to me.
I spend my hours these days
Watching the Olympics
With the usual champions the Americans
Canadians sometimes winning
A few medals for swimming
Women winning
Still no men
Emotional with Oleksiak
16 year old Torontonian
Breaking Canadian records
With 4 medals
Women rowers too getting there
Wrestlers, high jumpers, gymnasts,
And Nestor and Pospisil
For tennis medals. Eliminated by Spain.
22 medals for Canada, tying it to the Atlanta Olympics
In 1984...
What else can a retiree do
But leisurely watch tv
Take leisurely walks and swims
See a movie,
Pray, eat, sleep
And repeat this routine
Symbolically comparing the Olympics
To life, to youth, to that period in life
When competition was the be-all and end-all
But now I watch passively
As the young go through this Olympic process
In life, of life, youth, middle age,
Then, old age when the process ends
And life is but that Shakesperean 'walking shadow,
A poor player that struts and frets upon a stage
And then is heard no more.'
The big six take all that they can
they're not caring
they take too much ,won't admit that its such
they're not sharing
If you can't pay it all,they don't care if you fall
Into debt that's all of their making
For profits the be all and end all
The destruction of the planets a small call
For those that don't care bout tomorrow
for their children and ours there's no sorrow
They're just on the take for whatever they make
and they don't mind leaving a hell hole
For they think that their profits will save them
when the whole world's been fked by their breed
And the peasants can starve
they don't do things by half
Cause they'll happily gorge on their greed
I'm a Muslim whose voice remains unheard.
Peace was the first thing I eagerly learned.
Peace, the world's main hope and ambition,
Is the ultimate goal and name of my religion.
"Peace be upon you" is my all-time greeting
To everyone I run into or see at a meeting.
Love, the world's greatest aim and ambition,
Is the be-all and end-all of my religion.
Our Prophet once said, "Shall I tell you what to do
to find love, let there be peace among you?"
Let there be peace and love will grow.
Faster and stronger than all we know.
Islam is peace that leads to love
If peace is there, so will be love.
One word is worth a thousand pictures
Wait a minute, don't think I've got that right
BUT HEY! That works too if that one word is LOVE
It conjures up all sorts of heart warming scenarios
Love between parents and their children
Love of a Golden Retriever as she greets you at the door
Love of nature in all its grandeur
Love is waking up each morning to another sunshiny day
Love is a late night stroll on the beach
Love is THE one word that separates us from all other creatures
Love of all the joys and experiences life has to offer
Love is the be all and end all
The meaning of life on earth, the driving force
Our reason for being... everything else is superfluous
Without love, life has no meaning
Yes... one word is worth a thousand pictures!
© Jack Ellison 2014
The pill in sticky sweaty hands doth lie
Full of importance doesn't know why
The route finder has decided the journey, commencing.
via the saliva gland which wets the pill they're dispensing
Along the path from the pharynx where you are swallowed
Taking the A road to the oesophagus where pushing is allowed
Until it reaches journeys end the main line station of stomach
Then on to many branch lines being dispersed to enact
Have you realised which pill is the be all and end all of your being
What is the name of this important maker of good feeling
The Happy Pill, if your happy nothing else is of importance
Happiness is and Happiness does, with abundance.
Pill of Life Contest
dated 22/01/2013
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