Through many a deleterious event
I have learned
Life is a revolving door
Positivity
Negativity
All developing around nothingness; zero (0)
(Or the starting point of perception)

I once had a mother (0)
She has passed (-1)
And there will be a mother
Once again
The mother of my children
My wife (0)

I have a father now (0)
Living and meandering through a lost existence
Much in the likeness of myself
He too, will find death (-1)
Until I do find a father again,
The father of my children
Myself (0)

Born without money (0)
Throughout my existence
Money earned (+1)
Money spent (0)
Money lost (-1)
Money earned again (0)
More money earned (+1)
To be merely lost or given away (0)
In death, money is nothing

Happiness enthralls (+1)
Sometimes sadness prevails
Durations unknown (0)
Until death do us emotions part
Revolutions a many
Encircling that base which is flatline

For some it may be a God being that plus (+1)
The righteousness of mortals
The pride of spiritual guidance
Befalled by greed and sin
To inevitably bring back the negative (0)

With all this being said (+1)
Merely a few small examples
Minimally done at best (0)
I gather the solution
This poetry (+1)
My words
My legacy
Only live on as words on paper
Or the bloodlines carried on by future generations
To simply return back from where they came
Death shall be inevitable
Life, the world, existence
Revolve around nothingness; zero (0)

07/31/2006

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Posted on 05/19/2007
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