LIFE GOES ON

When a flower dies
It cries for no more water

When an animal dies
It cries for no more shelter

And when a man dies
He cries for not one woman

And when a man dies
He cries for not one dollar

When a man dies
He cries for no more sanity

Life goes on
Creating more
Than it can ever feed

The eons pass
Boring more
Than it will ever need

But the future
Is forever
And that gives us time

To decide
To abide
To make up
Our unfulfilled minds

I reached endlessly upward
And grabbed the heaven

Brought it down
From the sky
And gave a little piece
To every person living

I spread the heaven
On
In
And through-out 
The land

Grew grass
Trees
And people
On the lifeless white sand

Faith Frank.  2013