THE SADDEST OF ALL LOSSES

 

THE SADDEST OF ALL LOSSES,

ARE THE LEAST CARED FOR;

THEY ARE THE SMALLEST OF ALL TREASURES,

AND SO, THE LEAST, CRIED FOR.

THE SADDEST OF ALL IRONIES;

WE FORGOT, WHAT SMALL THINGS COST!

GOING ON, WITH LIFE’S LONG JOURNEYS,

THE SMALLEST OF THE SMALL ARE LOST!

YET, ARE THEY NOT THE SWEETEST?

THAT MAN, CAN MAN; PROVIDE,

TRULY THE SMALLEST, ARE THE GREATEST,

ONE DAY, THEY WERE, OUR JOY AND PRIDE.

YES, NOW THAT THEY ARE FORGOTTEN,

THEIR LOSS, WE’LL SCARCELY EVER KNOW;

YES, NOW, THAT WE HAVE LOST THEM,

STILL, IN OUR HEARTS, IT DOES SHOW.

WE HAVE LOST THE GREATEST GIFT, THUS

WE WALLOW IN OUR WOE,

ONLY WHAT WE HAVE LOST, CAN REDEEM US,

AS THE RIVER OF LIFE DOES FLOW!

PEACE AND PROGRESS- THEY ARE THE TWO SIDES

OF OUR LIFE’S COIN!

AND HE, BY WHOSE WILL, ALL THE WORLD ABIDES,

HE HIMSELF BID US TO JOIN.

IN OUR LIVES,

THEY DO SEEM SEPARATE,

AND INDEED SEEM FOREVER TO FLUCTUATE,

YET, THEY DO DETERMINE OUR STATE.

YES, WITH HIS GRACE, WE CAN BE FREE,

FROM, THIS FATE;

NO MATTER, HOW YOU HAVE LIVED,

IT’S NEVER TOO LATE,

BUT FIRST YOU MUST DESIRE, BOTH

HATRED, AND MALICE, TO ABATE.

JOY AND SORROW- HE ALWAYS,

SENDS THEM ALTERNATIVELY.

CAUSE’ ALONE, OUR WILL, WOULD BREAK,

AND OUR RESOLVE WOULD END.

FOR, IF EVER, THEY CAME TOGETHER,

 OUR MIND WOULD SHAKE,

IT IS BEYOND WHAT,

WE COULD COMPREHEND.

ONLY WHEN WE DETACH,

FROM OUR BODY’S EVERY NEED,

AND TO GOD, WE ATTEMPT TO ATTACH;

THEN ONLY SHALL WE BE FREED?

WE HAVE MADE OUR OWN PRISON,

AND BARRICADED EVERY WALL!

NOW IT SHALL BE THE REASON

FOR, OUR OWN DOWNFALL!

RIGHT FROM THE TIME, WE LEFT OUR MOTHERS WOMB,

TO THE TIME OUR CORPSE SHALL ROT,

KNOW, WE MUST, WHO ARE JAILERS ARE;

ENMITY, HATRED, AND MALICE,

PAIN AND PLEASURE, ARE THEY NOT?

OH! LOOK, YOU IGNORANT PEOPLE,

AROUND YOU, CAN’T YOU SEE?

EACH DAY, GODS ANGELS PLAY,

THE SAME REFRAIN; IF ONLY YOU COULD SEE!

IF, OF OUR MIND’S PRISON,

WE DO BECOME FREE,

ETERNAL LIFE, WOULD WE, GAIN,

AND SO END OUR SLAVERY,

TO, BOTH PLEASURE AND TO PAIN.

AND A WORLD OF PEACE,

WE WOULD BRING ABOUT,

THIS I SAY,

AGAIN AND AGAIN.