For To Live Long As I Can Poem by Francis Duggan

To billions of people life after death is not based on a lie
Whilst a minority will tell you we are born to die
And like all other life forms we will not live again
But hope for a life that will not end in physical pain.

As for me I only hope to live for as long as I can
And to die in my sleep as a very old man
I for one am not counting on a life after death
That may be it for us with our life's final breath

I do find it strange it does seem very odd
That people suicide for to kill for their God
When God does not wish us to do others ill
Moses fifth commandment states thou shalt not kill.

The dead cannot receive or the dead cannot give
And I do love life and I do want to live
For to be very old hopefully till my fifth score
For I do love life as I've told you before.