(aab) Why Are Things Go So Fast And Gone? Poem by Edwin Alba Empestan

You are very sane and in your right frame of minds
You were educated and reared in a very special way
You have enjoyed fully the normal stages of life
Until you are what you are today – a normal human being

You have been very busy for life’s challenges and career
Forget all your past headway for the present life
Unmindful with the wise saying that life is only lived once
Treasure of friends neglected and buried to forgetfulness

Acquaintances come and go but genuine friendships wasted
Now the climax come with unavoidable deaths of loved ones
Life seems come to a halt with some tragedy and crisis
Now you pause with a question where are your collections

Collections of good friends, relatives, they all vanish in sight
You look around but you have all those temporary wealth
Material things, like jewelries, expensive cars, all pure vanity
You cry for your Mom and Dad just died without you at their sides

Smoke are they that just vanish but surely will be forever in you
My friend life is not measured in terms of your material possessions
Instead it is being measured of how much you have shared with them
And how true friend you are that can treasure the camaraderie for time

Do not pretend to be a true friend if you can’t for all will be gone
And you will meet someone that will match your insincerity
Every action has an equal return and only time will tell
Now savor of what you feel and have and start counting your days

For one by one all will be gone and everything will change
There is nothing constant in the world in which we live in
All is subject to change! powerful and ordinary men alike will be gone
What is important is the value of true friendships and live with it

For THINGS GO SO FAST AND WILL BE GONE….FOREVER