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A FACT OF LIFE

FATE is a Course
We are Destined
to Take.
How we get there
is Sometimes
a Hard Choice.
Yet Follow we must.
For The Times
push us ahead.
We can Stay
for the Moment.
Only to see it
Pass Away.
As with
the Day’s End.
We
must Pass Today.

A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto
3/18/2007Copyright ©2008 Edgar Allan Prieto

THE WINE OF YOUTH

Drink not
From this Vial of Wine

For yet you  not
Feel its Flames

and Taste
The Bitter Sweetness
of Your Youth

That Burns Within you

For Foolish Things we Do

To make the Time go by

Speeding Forward

To what we Know not

Inpatient we Have been

To Find

We are

Still in the Place we left

The Sweetness and the Sorrow

For Time

Can be no man’s Servant

It Waits

Not For us,  but We for it   

A Painful Lesson

To be Learned

When we are

Consumed by Youth

For our Failing is

We move Beyond

What is not Yet to be

We must only Drink of Youth

Not take a  Shot to Boost

We must Face the Years

 As they Come

For then

We can Learn for one....

A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto
10/1/77
Copyright ©2008 Edgar Allan Prieto

REPARATION

The Sins
of Yesteryear
Cannot
be Balanced
By Today’s
Values
The Interest
Must be
Gained
By Giving
Everyone Value.

Oh! How,
A Fool
Would
Pay The Cost
I’ll Pay
a Dollar
For My Faults.

A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto
8/14/2002Copyright ©2008 Edgar Allan Prieto.

APPOINTMENT

DEATH
Never comes LATE
Its Appointment
Is set by FATE
DESTINY
Only marks the COURSE
CHOICE
Is set each DAY
FATE
Is on the WAY
To Keep the Appointment
EVERYDAY.

A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto
1/14/2007
Copyright ©2008 Edgar Allan Prieto

CHOICE

  
Life made
my First Choice .
I Follow through
The Second
was my Own .
For it
Took me all the Way .
Who was left
to Speak to.
When
I Had the Say?
I am Sorry,
I Cannot
Hear you now.
What did you say?
CONSCIENCE !
ARE THERE NO CRIES
DO YOU NOT KNOW WHY?
I CHOSE TO END IT
BEFORE IT WAS BORN
WHO DO I LISTEN TO
NOW !
THAT YOU ARE GONE?
Life has Spoken to me,
said I was Born.

A Poeatreeman
Edgar Allan Prieto
5/25/2007
Copyright ©2008 Edgar Allan Prieto




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