To A Friend Poem by Ferdinand L Quintos

Today let me asseverate
as to you I will dedicate
few lines that I hereby create,
hoping that all with it relate.

You are a person so sensate
and all the time considerate,
seldom a fellow man you hate,
you easily commiserate.

You are slow to fulminate,
a person ever so sedate,
dire times come, you ruminate
how crisis we meet to abate.

Faith in the Lord you propagate
with acts worthy to emulate,
ungodly ways eradicate
among men you advocate.

Each child we need to educate,
with knowledge we their minds sate
that odds in life it will equate,
give them the map to seek their fate.

When life of yours will culminate
and you will breathe your ultimate,
your dear body we will cremate,
your dust on altar elevate.

May the glow of lights stellate
lead you through the Pearly Gate,
where true peace you will celebrate
with God, under his high mandate.

©FLQ March 8,2014