TESTAMENT

                      Let there be something left when I am gone
                      As evidence of my mentality,
                      Some luminosity that I have shone
                      That brightly lightens all posterity.

                     It isn’t fame and glory that I seek
                     But only to have fashioned something good
                    As evidence that though life can be bleak,
                    It’s glorious when rightly understood.

                   That life and mind and mystery should occur
                   Presenting us with challenges to face
                   Has led us throughout history to infer
                   That under all, there’s some amazing grace,

                        Some cosmic Mind, some grand progenitor,
                        An awesome source we surely must adore.

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