Only One

What is this about retirement
That everyone is looking forward to
Like Christmas to a child

Saving saving and saving more
For retirement or
Urging people to save for the same

A destination of no work
Time for relaxation and play
Living off the savings

The reason for which a person
Spent so much time studying
Working while young

For that golden retirement
At 65 or few years earlier 
To live another 20 or 30 years

A master plan and guide
The meaning of life
For many people 

A spectacular plan
Just like someone driving
A Tesla with fully charged battery

Driving into the sunset
With just that one fully charged 
Pack of battery

Only one

Never Too Late

It is just amazing
Truly remarkable
How utterly lost 
Have no idea what 

All these adults 
Based on what they say
What they do
Or by mere history

Absolutely clueless
Talking gibberish
Proclaiming this and that
Making up conclusions

About life and everything
Social moral economic
Whatever that needs explanations
To satisfy their need to explain

Just talking nonsense
As though it is some wisdom
Begotten from their experience
Preaching to other lost souls

All to end up at the end
Not having slightest idea
The meaning of life
Going to the grave

No less confused
No less terrified
No less vindicated
Or satisfied

But as long as you
Are still breathing and conscious
It is not too late
Never too late

As long as you are
Still alive and conscious

Generating Income

People watch movies

Read books

Play golf

Climb mountains

Go fishing

Swimming

Dancing

Running

Painting

And pretty much everything

Besides working to make money

People do repeatedly

Cycling

Scuba diving

Surfing

Wood working

Pottery 

You name it and people do it

And many have obsession for it

Spending hours and hours

Of their limited number of hours

On this planet

And how can any one of them 

Doing the things not related to work

Not feel somehow

So lucky to be able to 

Occupy the times of their lives

With activities of pleasure

Yet so many 

Usually those who have so much 

Time and money to do the things 

Not related to generating income

Are the ones who are constantly

Searching for happiness

By doing the activities

That are not related to 

Generating income

 

Missing The Moment

When you look at the sunset
Beautiful sunset over the ocean

You are awed at the shear beauty
Magnificence of it all

Not thinking about the how
Or why or what sequence of events

Just enjoying the view
Without intellectualizing it

Which should and must be
How we approach God

Since although sunsets
Can be explained and understood

We cannot dare to think
Or be so bold as to believe

That one can intellectualize God
And understand Him

Missing the moment
The chance to accept

The presence

Powerless

Covid still going strong
No end in site
Young and old alike
Except children for some reason
Thank God

Everyone chiming in
To say something about life
Acknowledging the reality
Yet unwilling to concede
Perhaps too fearful to face

Death that is inevitable
A certainty indisputable
Fate of human kind
And all living things
Too proud to admit

Too proud to believe
There is power beyond
Life beyond death
In Jesus Christ
Choosing rather to face

Death alone
Without insurance
Without peace
Without hope
Powerless