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Life's Intermission
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By Duane Udd
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Life's Intermission

          Life's Intermission

 

 

Death and dying are intrusions

  Which disrupt our way of life

Terminating all illusions

  In this vale of toil and strife

 

Life does not go on forever

  Though we act as though it does

Death is detailed to dissever

  Oft when life is just abuzz

 

We repress most thoughts of dying

  Even when our bodies age

Months and years like moments flying

  Make swift endings hard to gauge

 

Some folks fearful for a lifetime

  Dread that dark impending day

No time ever seems like prime time

  To remove or fade away

 

Many things remain unfinished

  Friends forget to say goodbye

Most brief candles get extinguished

  By a woe-begotten sigh

 

Fearful fetters must be broken

  By our resurrected Lord

Who remains our timeless token

  Of God’s strong and loving cord

 

Linking past present and future

  Knitting hearts both here and gone

Comforting beyond conjecture

  When our loved ones journey on

 

Death is but a brief transition

  Staged for every man to play

Dying is life’s intermission

  In God’s everlasting day

 

 

 © Duane W. Udd

   26th Aug. 2001


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Submitted: Thursday, August 18, 2011

Last Updated: Thursday, August 18, 2011

About the Poet
Born in Anacortes WA USA on 11/24/1944. Raised mostly in Nyasaland(now Malawi) by missionary parents. Married to Carol, an Australian, who is the mother of our four children. After Seattle Pacific University and graduate studies at Princeton Theological Seminary and marriage, spent over two decades in missionary work mostly in Zimbabwe. Currently in Anacortes, but for 12 years did a regular program on www.swradioafrica.com where I sometimes shared poetry which I have been writing, off and on, since 1962. God's faithfulness is from everlasting to everlasting.


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