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Open Poetry #51

He Tried

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2021-07-20 01:53 PM

Standing on a precipice
And facing evermore…
Mistakes I’ve made behind me-
No clue what lies before.

I’d like to think I’m wiser-
If only that were true
But wisdom seldom plays a part
In things I say or do.

I contemplate the wasted years
The ones that lie behind-
And know I’m in the short rows now
And wonder what I’ll find.

Before too long the time will come
Which most folks seem to dread.
When I’ll have drawn my final breath
And they will find me dead.

I’d like to write my epitaph-
If it’s all the same to you-
“He tried each moment of his life-
To himself to be true.”

Divine Paradox
Junior Member

since 2021-08-03

Posts 44
I'm not from here.

1 posted 2021-08-03 09:21 AM

I like this kind of honest reflection. This could be any one of us contemplating the usefulness of our existence and the value of how we have lived. I feel asking these kinds of questions are themselves a sign of growing wisdom and humility in a person. Perhaps it will lead to truth before the end, the kind that lasts forever.

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