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Passing On
To be absent from the body
Is to be present with the Lord
The dust returns to earth
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It's Death Again
It's Death again – He's always there –
Watching, waiting – e'er the stare!
Every time I look behind
Or reach to pull the window blind,
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Mark R Slaughter
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Disingenuousness
Here lies another box for nature,
Carbon ready;
Black to eyes down here,
Where death is at its job.
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Beldame of Death
A crunch: afoot a dead arachnid
Spanning once a serving plate –
Oh! that others be alive
With such as me for spider bait!
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Musings
Be gentle, sky, and let me rest –
These bones are worn – they lack the zest
Of flesh in life – they’re marrowless! –
Their arid surface, nakedness! –
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Death and I
When death comes
I’ll need not love –
Consumed,
No wreath or dove
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A Fresh Endeavour
So now I've taken leave of life,
I thought you'd like to know, I still
Possess a mind in love, oh wife;
A soulful eye to catch a show of
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The Road to Hell
Someone once said, 'The road to hell is paved with good intentions.'
But it is much more than that, one can go so far as to mention,
That many on that road think they have with God, good relations.'
Have you ever read God's Word and learned of His expectations?
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The Body
Through oddly tinted glasses, I scan the grey of death –
Stone cold, bone old:
In awe I hold an artefact of life inside the eye!
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Mark R Slaughter
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Until We Again Rendezvous
This life has now passed away
They are with the Lord today
Enjoying a better life anew
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