<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511795" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Clock of Life</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You fought for my freedom.<br>I lived like a slave.<br>You gave your life for me.<br>So I could be saved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From a life lived for myself.<br>More was never enough.<br>The things I thought made life easier.<br>But it just made life tough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Keeping up with the Joneses.<br>Of my treasures I’d boast.<br>My material possessions.<br>Were the things I loved most.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not the gifts that you lent me.<br>But the treasures I earned.<br>Now I see just how Satan.<br>Wants me to get burned.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Keep your eyes on the prizes.<br>Let your gifts pay the price.<br>For all your heart it goes into.<br>Holds you tight like a vice.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It will squeeze your life from you.<br>You’ll leave God behind.<br>You don’t realize that Satan.<br>Is robbing you blind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once he has taken it from you.<br>He will take your last breath.<br>And what once was a gift.<br>Has now become death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He keeps you in your past.<br>Makes you think of tomorrow.<br>And this takes your today.<br>Time it cannot be borrowed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it’s all that you have.<br>And it is what he will take.<br>Til your heart is so broken.<br>That your spirit will break.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life lived for your body.<br>Or lived for your mind.<br>The truths of the earth.<br>Keeps your spirit confined.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your love is your time.<br>Your heart ticks like a clock.<br>And when it is over.<br>Your time it will stop.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When it is finished.<br>When you are gone.<br>Will your spirit die too.<br>Or will it live on? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spend your time very wisely.<br>And in others invest.<br>This is what the Lord tells us.<br>And our Father knows best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Live your life by your spirit.<br>Body and mind they will die.<br>One day they’ll be buried.<br>But your spirit will fly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ryan+Lee+Morris">Ryan Lee Morris</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511795" data-title="The Clock of Life de Ryan Lee Morris" data-description="You fought for my freedom. I lived like a slave. You gave your life for me. So I could be saved. From a life lived for myself. More was never enough. The things I thought made life easier. But it just made life tough. Keeping up with the Joneses..."></div> </div> </div>

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