Taking Your Inventory before Death

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Taking Your Inventory before Death


Note: We talk of death often in poetry, as well as love, I would think we have overdone these two issues after 7000-years, but it seems to be an ongoing interest among the masses, as well as individual; perhaps because these two areas are so mysterious. We think power, money and success can give us love before we die. And so we beat ourselves up to accomplish this, only to find out these are wishes and desires based on psychological needs, they are not the product of happiness. And by the time we figure this out, we are too old to do a thing about it. I often remember a scene in the bible: one of the holy men, standing along side four or five other men, talking at one of the gates of Jerusalem, and they are talking of simple everyday things. Perhaps the weather gets involved, or a neighbor in trouble. Something similar to that, or maybe they just talking about God, and how they used to be as kids running up and down the streets of the city; in any case, I thing of this, and when I’m riding or driving, or walking in cities and towns and villages throughout the world, and so forth and so on, I see this scene in reality. It is a great scene, and God had it put into the Bible for a reason. These folks are aging, talking about what they did; they are unconsciously preparing themselves, taking their inventory you could say, for another day. (1-6-2008)