This just came to my mind,
One day this world would end.
Now I'll remind
The life I have spent.
The good deeds, the bad deeds that I've done.
The things, the money, behind which I've run.
The life I've spent almost useless
I wish I could recycle it once again.
The remaining span of my life,
I want to use it with all wise.
O my Lord, help me to live
A life full of many good wills.
Health supplement rages nowadays
It's said to improve health
And so maybe for a better health
And so maybe for a longer life span
And so maybe for a more relaxed life
A pharmacist may introduce
A variety of health supplement
But we feel suspicious
Because we're spiritually unsafe
Maybe we need a religion
Maybe we need some leisure
Maybe we need some friends
Maybe we need our family
Maybe we need love and affection
Maybe we need a dream
Health supplement alone
Won't accomplish what we need
Spiritually
Unless we fall sick
Health supplement alone
Won't accomplish what we need
Spiritually
Maybe the bible
A supplement from heaven
Will do
The universe is infinite
Boundless and endless
But we men have limited life spans
As the extinction of some species
Like the dinausaur,the dodo
And the passenger pigeon
But we men have limited power and wealth
We are small and insignificant
We can't rule the world
With dictatorship or hegemony
Wealth and natural resources on earth
Are to be shared
And so the gifts from our Almighty God
Men's greed will not end up the infinite world But themselves
And maybe the extinction of
Some wild species and natural resources
You've no choice
What will be will be
So a greedy and cruel person
Strive for the most
Before it's too late
Maybe this is the reason
Why people are careless
Obstinate and cruel
But no matter who decides your future
You ought to be reasonable
Because you love God
Who is the Creator
Because you love the earth
You live on
Because you love your family
Whom you stay with so long
Any consequence is disastrous
Any revenge is cruel
How long will it be before we die
Many years before we say bye-bye
Be sure you see it all
Enjoy it have a ball
Don't let the good times pass you by
The optimist said that fifty years is half your life,
but the audience surely knows
that men don't live much longer than
the heyday of their town's proud factory
or the life span of an empire in the modern age.
Fifty-five years down a blind path cluttered with bombshells,
every wrong foot a heaving blast,
brickbats, not lemons rain down on
my tiny comic parasol till
I am left here holding only bent and rusty bones.
This is the part where the optimist will spin a yarn
about weaving a tapestry
from the ragged bits remaining,
the breathless crowd expecting the hero
to run their happy gauntlet again and again,
till the last clod falls.
Have a great birthday, dear Rose Ann,
People who live longer are few;
A study of human life span
Points to changes that man goes through.
Topic: Birthday of Rose Ann B. Vadquez (March 22)
life span
I’m at an age when people end die
As our life span has come to an end as it must.
I go to bed every night sleep well
And doesn’t think I might continue the sleep
The point is irrelevant should I not see a morning
I will not do such a thing as I will not know
Of every morning before I died,
I friend of mine was told he was going to die he
Travelled to places he had never been before
To enjoy the beauty a busy life had not permitted
Him to see back.
In the end, it was rather futile as the end of life
Erases whatever beauty you have seen.
Enjoy a long life the tortoise can,
But there is limit to its life span;
The winged snake rides high in the skies,
But it finally turns to dust when it dies;
Though in a stable an old steed is kept,
To gallop a thousand miles it does expect;
Although an ambitious man is in his old age,
He never abandons aspirations on the stage;
Man's span of life , whether long or short,
Depends not solely on Heaven’s support;
One who eats well and keeps cheerful,
Can naturally live to an old age wishful;
My heart is filled up with great joy,
And I chant this song to show my ploy.
(Tran.)
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