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My Life Instead
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Tuesday, April 21, 2020    Rated "G" by the Author.
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-- My Life Instead --

John Herlihy

 

Where is the life that late I led,

A life drained out as my heart bled?

Where is the life I may live instead,

The life for which I was truly bred?

Where is the life that waits in store,

A true life that lies within my core?

Where is the life that asks for more,

A life that enjoys what I simply adore?

Where is the life full of riches and plenty,

A life not to leave me feeling empty?

Where is the life that will promise bounty,

Not a life to simply fade away in memory?

Give me a life that I may smile and weep,

A life to call my own, to treasure and keep.

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(c) John Herlihy 11 July 2019

 


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 Reviews of "My Life Instead"
Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on April 26, 2020
THOUGH IT MIGHT SEEM THAT WE GET 'OFF TRACK'
I BELIEVE THERE'S NO SHORT-COMING IN GOD...NO LACK
IN THE END WHAT HE PLANNED IS WHAT...IS
WE WALK THE PATH WE ARE DESTINED TO LIVE.
OUR LIFE.
THANKS FOR THE SHARE, JOHN. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...HIS+INSPIRATIONS

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on April 22, 2020
It's our life , and it's up tp us to make the best of it.

Reviewed by John Domino
Reviewed on April 21, 2020
Definitely worth repeating.

Reviewed by Rebecca McKeehan
Reviewed on April 21, 2020
A deeply emotive, personal, and yet universal prayer, and one I'm certain many are expressing in this time of enforced introspection. Beautiful.

Rebecca


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