"Love Gains"

creativity101 (57)in #poetry • 7 years ago

Gathering in gold as if the end was nigh,
Man forgets his life is now a lie,
Can our gold cross the great divide,
Keep us company, forever with us abide,
Looking at mansions of those long gone afore.

Their skeletal edifice hate and greed devour,
Wealth, friends and kin naught but candles in the wind,
Puffs of smoke, ephemeral, no whiff of them to mind.

Decades from now who will to us give thought ,
Whose prayers have our unkindly ways bought.

The gold, the houses carry no lasting joy,
Warmth they lack, bad friends all employ,
Charon and regrets across the river Styx.

Our sole, lonesome companions as we leave the world of bricks.
Reach out today, do not love forsake,
Costs nothing in the giving, costs even less to take.

Reach out with love, give all you can away,
‘Tis the only thing yonder you can with pride display.

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