A Trip with No Return

A Trip with No Return

 

A trip I am taking

From which I won’t come back

It’s not of my making

But I’m ready to pack

 

That trip I cannot stall

For it’s taken by all

We all obey that call

Old, young or even small

 

I may go to a space

Where good cheer has no bounds

They say it is a place

Where happiness abounds

 

Have you paid a good price

A lot of people ask

Earning this paradise

Becomes a mighty task

 

If while you are alive

God’s rules you never miss

I’m sure you’ll earn that life

Of happiness and bliss

 

There is another place

Where my long trip may end

A real hot desert space

Where all my time I’ll spend

 

There is never relief

For cool you’ll never be

Where you will always beef

For rain you’ll never see

 

Will I be ending there

And burn eternally

Have I been good or fair

Or bad I’ve been really

 

 

 

A Trip with No Return

(Continued)

 

I will tell you one thing

I truly have to say

That of the rules I think

Those rules I should obey

 

Are these sites really there

Some say that that’s a myth

I hope it won’t be where

The rest of me will sit

 

Has someone seen that place

And come right back to tell

Has he come face to face

With it for years to dwell

 

They say our trip will end

At a hole near our homes

Where worms will surely spend

Eating even our bones

 

              A good or a bad being

We’ll be there anyway

Worms may eat everything

We won’t feel it, they say

 

 I’m ready to embark

I’m almost on my way

Just where I’ll disembark

I really cannot say

 

But I sure hope and pray

That wherever I stay

I can come back to say

That if you’re good, it’ll pay

 

I won’t discuss the place

The place where I reside

‘Cause I want to save face

For it will hurt my pride