Carpe Diem
What do you do when God calls you home
and you’re not ready to go? What do you say?
Where do you go? Who do you see?
Oh, how lonely life can be!
The years you lived, all the sacrifice and pain
and love you have for your devoted spouse
and family—not near enough now; but it’s too
late, the Grim Reaper’s at the gate!
And then you hear, from God knows where,
a miracle perhaps, modern science, or a blessing
from your past, but reprieved from your day
of reckoning, you cry in humbled pain —
Thank you, God! Thank you, heaven! Thank you
everyone! And when all your thanking is done,
you promise yourself to seize the day, and live
every moment of your precious life with
more gratitude than desire.
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