Go to the end of your life, dear one.
Read what the paper says.
Will the account be true and say the things
You always hoped would be said?

Even when we are very young,
The Bible says we are known
By the deeds we are doing, the deeds we have done.
They follow, won’t leave us alone.

So, you’ve already started your epitaph,
Even though you did not know.
Prepare each day.  They will write it the way
You live it.  For, it is your own.
  © 2002 by Joan Clifton Costner jody@ptsi.net