BIRTHDAY PSSING THOUGHTS 030913
What a birthday this day foretells.
Promise full.
01/09/22
But I hope my death is not too sad for those around.
Funny to think of on such a day.
But bears thinking to take away some of the sting.
‘We are stardust, we are golden … a billion years of carbon…’
Carbon, never created, always was, will be.
Where is death if there is no beginning?
No ending to behold
if you’d don’t hold too tight.
If you let things,
people,
places slip away,
if you don’t try to grasp the moving blade.
I sleep in peace,
You who are left, awake in peace.
About 12457adlib
I'm a Chaplain at Townsville's hospitals and also teach Calm Abiding Meditation to any one who's interested.
I have facilitated Calm Abiding Meditation for soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder and find this an amazing experience.
I work part time as an usher at Townsville's Civic Theatre and get to see some great plays and musicals, as well as some not so great, school speech nights!
(Unbelievably, this theatre has the highest seat occupancy rate of any theatre in Australia.)
I also work as an invigilator at the local Uni. (bet that's got you looking for your dictionaries!)
A group of writers ('My Crazy Artist Friends') gives me live fed back on my poems.
They are the survivors of Writers in Townsville Society (WITS) of which I was president /secretary for over ten years.
I enjoy writing poetry and am grateful to my grade 12 English teacher, Mrs Grimmer for coaxing the dead poets off the page and into the class room.
Hope you enjoy reading my work.
Stay happy, keep reading,
Phil Heang.
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