Wednesday, May 8, 2024

We Can't Take Our Books with Us When We Die - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

We Can’t Take Our Books with Us When We Die

 

Ecce nova facio omnia. Et dixit mihi: Scribe quia hic verba fidelissima sunt, et vera. 

-Apocalypsis XXI:V

 

We can’t take our books with us when we die

That reality shouldn’t bother me, but it does:

The copy of The Brothers Karamazov

I carried in Viet-Nam – off to a re-sale shop?

 

But God is the Word from Whom all blessings flow

And since He is the Word, all our books are His

How foolish of us if we fear that God

Has made no proper arrangements for them

 

Books are eternal

 

Great blessings in paper and ink and page and leaf

For learning and leisure and wisdom and belief

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