Wisdom Poem by Dean du Preez

I used to pray for wisdom and pain was what I got,
I asked for understanding and confusion seemed to be my lot.
I guess I realize now that these attributes come at a price,
To gain wisdom and understanding, the journey there may not be nice.

Be careful what you wish for,
When you want it to stop you get dished more.
But be patient throughout,
You have to ride it out.

Closer to my creator is a desire within me,
Unfathomable, incomprehensible are His ways,
The more I understand the smaller I realize I am,
I continue to believe there is a greater plan.


The prize of wisdom unfolds through the years,
The clarity of wisdom sometimes clouded by your tears,
We live we learn,
We feel we burn.
Everyone will have a turn.
Everyone will have a turn.

Days are not the same,
Thought patterns change and some remain,
There is no joy in sunshine but laughter in the rain,
Life on life's terms,
Live on as wisdom churns.

Sometimes it all seems meaningless,
Live to die
Struggles burdens and bitterness,
People curse before they bless
Its a mess
A broken nest!

My mouths utterances bring consequences,
Many words, still the hunger of speaking never quenches,
Relentless
Restless
Careless toward doom
If it were not for guardian angels surely I would die too soon.

My eyes deceive me,
Spirituality within and beneath me,
Around me above me the spiritual realm,
Life is life and who is at the helm? !

Our days are numbered and but a few,
Life is soon over even if we lived a century or two,
When i was younger I thought I'd live forever
Maybe in another life but in this one its never.


Listen to the wind blow,
See the sky
Running water
The unseen world encompasses us
As bigger expands so smaller too never ends
We just don't know
How great or small something can go.

When its all over
When we are all gone
What was the meaning of it all
When those we love most vanish

When those we love most
When those we love
When those we
When those
When



It all disappears