Measured,Weighed

If a man needs rewarded in the end for deeds he should do by conscience there is something wrong with him.

Becky and I

Neither birth, nor death, escape pain

it starts with the babe's cry

Men wax and wane, throughout their reign

in the end just to die

 

 Through heat and cold we push onward

like Lemmings to the sea

Ever shore-ward, ever nor-ward

and on to victory

 

The weeks pass by without delay

and with them countless tears

As most I'd say, lament the day

that their months turned to years

 

What makes man something to behold

is not the after-life

It's in the gold, of stories told

and arms of the good wife

 

We need no promise from above

to tell us we'll be paid

By joys hereof, through souls we love

is man then measured weighed

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Author's Note

It has always bothered me the idea of being paid in the end for our good deeds that is. If a man needs rewarded in the end for deeds he should do by conscience there is something wrong with him. Kindness is it's own reward. Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Reviews

[David Lewis Paget]

As always, Tate, you ponder the imponderable. I don't suppose we'll ever know the answer to your questioning the rights or wrongs of performing good deeds. Suffice it to say that good deeds usually bring about positive results, and these should be reflected in our Karma. Better that than the destructive urges now being played out in the middle east, anyway. And if there is nothing after death, we lose nothing by being magnanimous.

[Tate Morgan]

Pondering the Imponderables I will always do good works because kindness is its own reward Thank you David

[E.P. Robles]

THIS poem invites reflection on the transient and sometimes painful nature of life, while emphasizing the importance of relationships, personal stories, and the pursuit of joy in finding meaning and purpose. I really enjoyed reading this prose!

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you EP Robles I appreciate that

[E.P. Robles]

:) It was a great pleasure reading this prose. I very much enjoyed it!

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn..]

Tate,

You have penned a most beautiful and lovely piece of brutally frank and candid truth!

I am one who does not support, advocate, nor believe in the evidenced existence of any form of Afterlife, though I am not against such said existence if it were to ever prove true in carrying forth our existence of essence beyond that rotting stench of decomposition that is the only true and factual reality our hearts, minds, and senses can witness as that which is commonly called the grave (see my articles, titled: He's Risen, He's Risen -- They Say-- But True Credibility Is ... & ... If The Life Is In The Blood ... as well as, Deception Is A W***e's Face Smiling), I would/will be all for it, and that for every single Human Being who has ever lived upon this Earth, for who am I to judge who is, or is not, worthy of such an After-death reality? ... It is my view that there is no God of Organized Religion, though I do believe there is something out there in the vastness of some place, some where, some how that Man has never met and shall never meet or commune with, and shall forever remain beyond Man's highly overrated significance of I.Q.'s intelligence realm of comprehension ... Thus, each other, as fragile all too mortal flesh and blood Human Beings is all that we have ... We must endeavor to do for one another, care for one another, assist, aid, and save one another lest that day come when Man's Mankind called Humanity finds itself undone and distinctly extinct ...

Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

[Tate Morgan]

Sadly, I don’t think we will make it through our infancy. I have too do not believe. Should I be proven wrong? I’ll talk to him at the time. At the moment, I worry more about my friends and relatives and their struggles on this earth I worry about the here and now not the ever after.

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Tate,

You and I are on the same page of logic and reason on this particular topic that I believe is essentially important to Man's Mankind as Humanity that is The Human Race: This Life takes precedence over any thoughts, beliefs, or hopes of an Afterlife following death and decomposition, as now is always more important than later, as an after the the fact, rather than facing facts ... To those who are readers of comments before readers of an author's work, I recommend a book written long before we were born, long before I developed by own personal beliefs of conclusions regarding an AfterLife, and the following author came to the same conclusions as you and eye long before either of us were born. He was a Liberal of the 30's, a far different type of Liberal than is considered today, because at that time there was not the state of extremism that exists today, rendering only two corners of extremes: Far Right or Far Left, and so Corlis Lamont was a sound reasoning and logic based Liberal and not a Leftist Extremist by any means. I highly recommend his meticulously researched book, The Illusion of Immortality, available for free downloading in PDF form from this link: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.222482 ... And available for purchasing @ Amazon.com ... Let's spread the word on the life of any Hereafter ...

Marve

[Tate Morgan]

There is a movie on it us called the man from earth you would love it

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

I will check it out ...

[Tate Morgan]

You tube the man from her. 14,000 year old man finally decides to tell his friends who he really is and his impact upon history.

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

I found it and downloaded it ... Thanks Tate!

[Tate Morgan]

You’re very welcome

[Tate Morgan]

Once you’ve watched it, you’ll want to watch the sequel. I think it’s called the Man from Earth Holocene it’s 20 years into the future and all of the people that he told about his quest come looking for him and he is still alive, but he has not aged and they have.

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Okay, Tate, my friend, I shall endeavor to seek it out and download it as well ... We do not see eye to eye nor agree on everything of every issue, but we have much more in common in love of Humanity than not, and I respect your opinions and viewpoint ...

[Tate Morgan]

The movie aligns with your view of religion and life this guy was Jesus only nit the Jesus we knew simply a student of Buddha who tried to pass Buddha’s ideas to the Mediterranean they didn’t listen since he couldn’t die he didn’t die that sets the friends off one in particular who is a devote Christian all hell breaks loose when they realize everything they know us a lie

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

This is true, many of the sayings and scenarios within the ANONYMOUS (Yep the Catholic Encylopedia confesses that all four of the Gospels were written anonymously and NO ONE AT ALL know who actually wrote them, whether or not they were actual and real so called believers, disciples, or apostles) Gospels are taken directly from the teaching of Buddha/Buddhism, and have not a f*****g thing to do with anything that is so called Christian that a good friend of mine terms as Xtian, because it is all built around the farce of the X: Cross ...

Marve

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

By the way Tate,

you are a good man, and a remarkable Human Being, a trait amongst Humanity that is nearing extinction ... As Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU has so often instructed me: Never allow your quill to rest ... There is a world of Humanity at stake, and our literal extinction is Free Thinking Human Beings is the on the table as the cost ...

Marve

[Tate Morgan]

Amen to that brother. I found these two movies to be so fascinating because thinking of the apostles. For instance, they were for the most part illiterate fisherman. They couldn’t write the wrong name let alone a gospel. The gospels are way too similar to of been written by anybody but one man. There is another movie you can probably find it pretty easily called the name of the rose with Sean Connery. It is about the difference between the Benedictines and the Jesuit in the dark ages Monks begin dying at an alarming rate as this one monastery, so they send Sean Connery there as a Jesuit to investigate being more fluid of mind and heart issue. Figures out that all of the dead head red a book by Socrates, I think it was banned by the monastery, so they poison the tips of the pages with Cyanide anyone who licks their finger to move the page, poison themselves and die all this because the head monk
Feared that a book by Socrates, on comedy would teach people to laugh at life and then at God, add to this, the pope who sends inquisitors Bonardo, GUI who, of course, investigates by torture

[Tate Morgan]

By the way, if you have a iPhone and a smart TV, you can project the movies from YouTube onto your television

[Tate Morgan]

Slide your finger up from the bottom, you’ll see something that says mirror

[Tate Morgan]

It will look like two television sets side-by-side two rectanguls touch that up will come a reference to your television if it’s in the same room and turned on push that and it will project everything from the phone to the television you can watch the movie that way

[Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham]

Cool! You are a good man Tate ... I sense that about you from a far distance ... Never allow anyone to tell you anything differently ...

Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn de Graham

P.S.: Poop Scoop: I have always loved and revered this song that you have chosen to attach to your wonderful piece of Poetry: Abraham, Martin, John, & Bobby!

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you I only follow my own sense of right and wrong. I’m not a follower I always blaze my own path just as you do and if something sounds wrong to me I don’t care what anybody says. I don’t change my mind based upon others opinions.

[Johnson Bobby]

this beautiful i shared this with wife and both had tears in our eyes/ thank you very much

[Tate Morgan]

ThAnk you Johnson I truly am humbled by that

[Kathy Van Kurin]

Tate Morgan,
"Measured, weighed" Ample opportunity in the day to day of life; we all share this gift. Choices, voices- do we listen act? Motivation? Why do we do the acts, speak the words. Are we not accountable? Only to self? If not is the reward knowing we did the best we could with what we had? Send love along while we can. Thought provoking. Blessings, Kathy

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you for stopping by Kathy I am touched that you liked it

[JB Murray]

Fantastic Tate! I really enjoyed this. I can relate, as I've recently, over the past few years have struggled with this seemingly instilled idea that there has to be some reward at the end of everything, that there always has to be a goal to reach, instead of simply, just living in the moment. and have to come to realize, that it's those moments that are the reward, not where we end up. If you haven't read any Alan watts, you may want to consider. He has a brilliantly simplified way of looking at things as such. Anyway... nice write!

[Tate Morgan]

Hey JB thank you for that yeah this was just one of those thoughts I had in passing so I created it into a pol hey JB thank you for that yeah this was just one of those thoughts I had in passing so I created it into a poen

[Mercy Fae]

As usual, you write wonderfully.

I regret that I do not have more to say in this review.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you Sorcha

[barleygirl]

I love your well-crafted poem with good rhyme, rhythm, & clear message. I also like your author's note, my sentiments exactly. I'm all about paying it forward. We don't get rewarded in some orderly fashion. We recognize our blessings in every unexpected corner of life. I like the way you've stated the pain of birth & death in the first stanza, as well as the lemmings in the second stanza -- all done with fresh originality. Thanks for sharing.

[Tate Morgan]

Thank you The thought came from the idea that we should not do good with the expectation of buying our way into heaven Kindness is its own reward