We do not know

We do not know

When death with come

We only now that life is for but moments

Even if those moments strung together

Make a many linked pearl chain

Of suffering

Wisdom

Joy

Pain

Love

And experience

We never really know

When the bell will toll

That calls out our name

When it will

Summon us home

But I think it wise

Never the less

To remember this

No one gets out of here alive

And every day we survive this life

Is a precious gift

Even if at times the pearls of

Suffering and experience

Weigh upon us so heavily

They feel

Like stones