Monday, November 30, 2020

The End

 

THE END 


The waning of youth

The dawn of old age

The sunset of death

The passing of bliss

The repudiation of lies

The relinquish of faith

The taint of hope

The reprieve of failure

The disobedient servant 

The immoral adulation 

The arraignment of doubt

The unrepentant guilt 

The beguiling truth

The surrender of it all

When God did not save you.


By John Hardesty


Written(c): 11/30/2015

Friday, November 27, 2020

Where Do We Go When We Die?



Where do we go when we die?

When sunlight expires from the sky

Do we succumb to the time’s arrow

That shoots through the heart and marrow?

Is life over and finished in this dire existence? 

Do we escape death into another leaping world? 

I find no hope in aspirations that cling to fantasies,  

And hold in contempt this arrogance of mystery, 

Dead minds can’t conjure resurrection 

From whence oblivion,



  Herding Cretan milk goats and chanting Greek verses  to poly gods, writers ascribe  to the pastoral hymns of sorrow where time’s the thief...