But, I Survived
As i watched my ship going down
taking many shipmates and friends
to a foreign watery grave
i wondered “Is this how life ends?”
Could this be how the world would end;
a broken world which we could not mend?
Well, what about eternity;
a life which God had promised me?
That life which priest and preachers said
will come about when we are dead,
now seemed an impossible dream
as i heard my dying shipmates scream.
Sixty years later i relax,
nothing is sure but death and tax.

Walt Abbott–6-16-2009