Let's Face It

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Many take Faith in God

Or The Spiritual World

Or other Power.

It gives them Purpose

And makes them feel good.

I smile for them

In their Positive View

And wish them luck with that.

I hope they are right

In their beliefs

For I may benefit too.

But, let’s face it,

Science shows

That when we die,

Each one of us,

Our flame is totally

Extinguished.
No-one lives forever.
Everyone dies.

We are reduced to skeletons

Or scattered ashes

(Unless kept in an urn)

Or in some other form

Of “preservation”.

These are the facts

From which

We cannot escape.

All the more important then

That as the cliché goes

We make the most

Of what remains

Of our Life.

Important that we Love all living things

And do our best

To Achieve all that we can,

Aspire and Succeed

For a better world

And for The Common Good.

Paul Butters

© PB 3\11\2019. 

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