Lessons From The Tomb

Walk amid the tombstones and listen well,

Hear the stories of the triumphant dead,

Tested have been those who under ground dwell,

Heed their instruction while still here to tread,

Whispering softly they beg thee come close,

Down to the sanctified ground place an ear,

The mystery of life shall be disclosed,

To he who is truly willing to hear,

All in heaven, in the pit, or between,

Have faced judgement for every earthly sin,

Condemnation in life has too been seen,

By the voices of disapproving men,

Those who here lie learned at hour of death,

This marked lesson too late understood,

Tis’ offered now, to thee fore your last breath,

The perished their own error to make good,

Keep forever these words breathed from afar,

Bethink them over and over again,

Others find lacking everything you are,

Substance and vitality will they drain,

Days spent weary from pleasing all others,

To the end of time wasted my mortals,

In this hardship each one then is smothered,

Corpses walking round between earth’s portals,

The key then is this, muttered from the grave,

Men will decree unworthy each action,

Live by daring purpose, mighty and brave,

For only one’s inner satisfaction.