What if I told you

To my son

What if I said you were mortal

And there was an end to your ride?

And that you’d walk through that portal

And be stuck on the other side?

 

What if when departing this earth

You’ll leave behind your possessions?

Does it bring you sadness or mirth

To have no answers, just questions?

 

So live your life now and be bold

Do good unto others, my son

Today Leave your mark on the world

A sure way your name will live on 

 

 

Author's Note

I'm sure as hell don't know where this came from. I'm as surprised as you are, guys.
if you could improve on the poetic side of this.. thing, I'd be much obliged.

Reviews

[Norman 223]

You have asked the question that many of us have searched for. This is why there are so many religions. They all have different solutions - some banal, some kindly and some vicious. I asked the same questions in my poem "Wholly Unholy".
You don;t need to improve on your poetic presentation, Woody. It is brief ,concise and realistically worded..

Norman

[Woody]

Norman, it must be lack of confidence but I can never admit to myself thatt my poems are passable. how can I when I see wonderfully crafted verses such as the ones you bring here? ok I'm good with the rhyme but scan, rhyth, meter.... too much trouble. that's why most of my poems (such as the lymerics) are kind of "clownish".
ta very much for the review and the boost.
I agree to what you say about religions now let me go take a look at Wholly Unholy.

[Emily B]

I've been recycled so many times that the stuff doesn't make much difference

the lessons are important though

[Woody]

thanks a bunch Emily. while expressing my gratitude to all and sundry for their compliments and/or encouragement, I'll continue to insist that I'll never amount to much as a poet.
it was just an idea and I had to try it :)

[Emily B]

We are all poets :) and you are a good one

[Woody]

very kind of you to say so.

[Lydia Shutter]

Indeed, we have to live each day to the fullest because no one is promised a certain number of days. I liked the rhyming in this and the wise life advice. A little different for you. Lydi**

[Woody]

I know, right? now an' again I'd act my age just to unnerve people. now back to my old jolly self :)
thanks a lot Lydi. you're always so encouraging.

[Scrap]

Live each day like it were your last

[Woody]

absolutely Scrap.
just pretending to write poetry haha. thanks for the visit.

[Scrap]

And im pretending to be the greatest reviewer everrrrrrr. Hahaha.

[Great Aunt Astri]

Oh what a lovely poem. Straight forward but dealing with an immense subject. I thought you said you didn't do poetry!!

[Woody]

aww thank you Auntie. I think good poetry like yours must've rubbed off on me. don't know, trying to keep up with you guys.

[Willard Wells]

We are all on a journey and it is up to each of us to find our own way. Being as you suggest in your work is a good way. Well Penned.

[Woody]

thanks loads Will. I try.
sometimes when I'm most cynic, I think that humanity's doomed. something's not quite right in the world, that's for sure.

[alifeacoustic]

Well you don't know where it came from but I'd try tune into that frequency more often Woody. This is fantastically good. Just a simple point of fact that the sands are running down and to make the most of the time we have and to not pay too much heed to past regrets and spend the time looking forward instead.
Nicely, nicely.

[Woody]

thank you very much dear poet. I can't agree more.
btw, anybody told you that alif was the first letter of the Arabic alphabet?

[alifeacoustic]

No, but that kind of makes sense to me now. A lot of people shorten it to alif when I would have thought alife would be the natural break. That makes so much sense now, cheers Woody.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

what we do will follow us into the next life, not what we have.

well said, Woody...well said.

it works for me "as is"----

j.

[Woody]

I'm glad and flattered jacob. so that's how it'll stay, by Jove!