Of Unrelenting Death

 

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

Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; 

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,

 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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