One Man’s Life and Thoughts

About the Book

There is no one that can promise that tomorrow will even come, And there is no guarantee at all that we will see tomorrow’s sun. The promise of another day is not a guarantee things will change, In fact there is no guarantee that there are any days that remain. Then what value is there in today if tomorrow may never come, Why worry about a day not here when our present one isn’t done. We should focus on the present and treat each hour as if the best, For times a gift he loans to us when it is gone we have none left. For once it’s gone it’s truly lost, not one minute can be returned, The values in how we used it, and most important what we learned. So if we’re frugal with our time, and use it to learn about his way, He will reward us with additional time in the form of another day. But remember time is still God’s gift; it has value and great worth, A tool he’d have us use to learn about his wisdom here on earth. So each moment that he gives to u, is ours to try to be like him. But if we squander what he gives, we’ll not have that time again.

About the Author

I grew up in the copper mines of Arizona and graduated from Arizona State University at Tempe, Arizona. My degree is bachelor of science in electrical engineering. My major job was director of world marketing for the Quartz Watch Program for Motorola. I left the engineering field and went into the financial newsletter business. Due to the return of polio in the form of postpolio syndrome, I had to accept disability and retire. I did not have any experience writing poetry. Then one night our next-door neighbor’s son was killed in an accident. I lay in bed that night, and for the first time in my life, a poem came to me. I got up and went to my computer and, in twenty minutes, wrote “He’s My Son Too.” With this, I started to write for several years until I ran out of any new ideas. So I just stopped, and after several years, I was encouraged to publish some of the 1,600 poems that I have written. I have gone through many different problems that I have put into the poems I have written. I hope that these poems are enjoyed each of you, some basics in life that I had never recognized myself.