15-The Lessons Of Yore Sonnet Poem by Anthony D Bailey

For the Human Race

Our span on mother Earth is all too short,
And to spend a dear moment sad a crime,
As cruel time is impossible to thwart,
Thus cherish this life for this life is time.
Yet brothers all we act untrue to each,
For sin and offence still smother mankind,
Time’s lone help perhaps, is simply to teach,
Lessons of yore, to which we appear blind.
Whereas time will survive all things earthly,
And timely turn’d to dust this globe and star,
Thus judge time not for time acts unharshly,
But ‘tis a fixed trial with which to spar.
So look further back than forward to learn,
For times past lessons show how we can burn.

(July 09)