Death and Eternity

When Longfellow said his prayers

he left his poems to his heirs.

It is we, who follow, who say,

“Each of us has a role to play.”

Our poems will still carry on

after our bodes have all gone.

The dead poets society

will accept each of us nicely.

In the meantime we try to do

what our consciences tell us to.

Even poems which do not rhyme

outlive the ravages of time.

We remember what they have said

long after their bodies are dead.

Walt Abbott–5-21-2010