Poem based on Luke 16:19-31 The Rich Man and Lazarus

Life is good

Family and friends gathering for meals

Dripping with milk and honey

Life is good for the children of Abraham

Busy with the day to day duties of making money

Being at the right place

Connecting with the right people

Busy

Something seems different today

The front steps

Seem somehow empty

But I can’t seem to put my finger on why

O well,

I must have been dreaming

Life is good for a child of Abraham

Who is busy

And on track to the good life

In time

The business and the good times also come to an end

In time all of life levels out

In time the busy stops for us all

Almost

Hay you, boy

I know you

I dropped trinkets and change in your bucket

(without ever working to change the bucket)

You owe me

Water!

Now please!

And tell my family

If they are not too busy to listen