Yes, we can’t take it with us
Cash or treasures of any kind;
Hearse without a trailer, thus
How we leave the world behind!
And it’s a truth we oft discuss

The past, I put away in a paper b
And threw it with the next-day’s t
I went to bed feeling good,
But sleep didn’t come in a flash
For I remembered the olden days

I’ve got a splinter in my lil fing
So I’ll need a needle to take it
A sharp samurai ain’t worth a ding
Unless my finger, I can do withou
But should one night, I meet a ni

When I was a young teen, she was
She knew all about me, because I
Knew all my skeletons, on her I c
Ain’t my sweetheart, just a really
As always, life intervenes, and we

A thousand poems he’s written
Just to pledge his love undying
Sadly, she’s still distant and unc
And his verses are unread and forg
First time he saw her, he’s been b

A faint scent of jasmine
Stirred up an emotion
Long, long dormant
She wore it often
Her magic potion

An emotion, ephemeral and fugitive
Swept him when he saw her last nig
Bitter rage, childish and primitiv
But then he realized, he has no ri
Yes, the feeling drifted away quic

As we grieve the passing of anothe
Our mending hearts shattered one m
We reach out to heaven, ask what w
Forsaken we are, though guilty of
But here we stand firm, our faith

Unread my rhymes could be, it matt
Even if all my poems gain no accla
Satisfied will I be and bear no s
For my time and effort won’t be fo
Words I write describe the beauty

Yes! ‘tis the promise of another d
All of God’s blessings on their w
White clouds for always, never gra
And so, every night, this we pray!
Over the far hills, peeks, the sun

the starlit harbor view
peeked in from the window
moonbeams bathe them
they cast a giant shadow
on the wall,

From a dream I wakened
Sleepy eyes I opened
Refreshed
Energized
Feeling like a teen;