The bloom none can restore after its petals fade and fall...
It sweetens our senses to fleet moments as they meld
And stirs us to remember what we far too oft let slip
It reawakens us to notice love; a world beheld
With kinder eyes when Unrelenting Death makes known its grip
It readjusts the grasp on what we clasp and count most dear
It causes us to reevaluate goals we purse
How beautiful common responsibilities appear
When Unrelenting Death once more impacts us with its due
It leaves us gently smitten with life’s sheer vitality
The Other Side still hidden drawing nearer with each breath
It strikes the sacred chord that tunes us to eternity
For there is no relinquishment from Unrelenting Death
It solemnizes wish-lists with people rather than things
Love cannot be fulfilled without best words like ‘us’ and ‘we’
It keens us to the imminence of what the unknown brings
Where someday Unrelenting Death will come for you and me
It urges us to think beyond time’s splurge of dust-to-dust
Where the undying soul indwells shells of mortality
It bids us bow our heads and reaffirm the sacred trust
In He who anchors hope beyond Death’s unrelenting sea
The bloom none can restore after its petals fade and fall
Ah Death, thy unrelenting score rends ties 'neath touch unfurled
But never love; life's fond and fairest flower of them all
Unveils a glimpse of Eden before sin entered the world
© Janet Martin
for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die."
Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes,
Genesis 3:6
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes,
and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom,
she took the fruit and ate it.
She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
James 1:15
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;
and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
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