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From the vast deep void of the Cosmos
Life forms emerge and take breath
And Alpha blends into Omega
In the cycle of living and death
When he enters this life man brings nothing
He appears naked, helpless and bare
To merely survive he needs others
To provide him with nurture and care
But as he grows more self-sufficient,
And aware of the world and its wealth
He schemes by nefarious methods and means
To amass what he can for himself
His gods become power, material gain
And blinded by glitter and glare,
He forgets that he soon will depart as he came-
Naked, helpless and bare
For sooner or later through passage of time
By nature, abuse, or disease
The flesh will wear out, then wither away
And all of its functions will cease.
The cycle of man will have run its brief course
Thus ending his sojourn on earth
What measure, then, will posterity use
To mark his true value and worth?
It won't be the footprints in time that he makes
By amassing great wealth at the end
Such footprints can't last on the loose sands of time
They'd be lost in the rain and the wind.
But the footprints he makes by his unselfish gift
Of himself, of his heart and his mind
Like etchings in granite through eons of time
Serve as beacons for those left behind
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Poem by: Shelby Forrest ©
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