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How much can you get?


Ecclesiastes 5:6 

6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your excuse and destroy the work of your hands?

 

How much can you get ... how much can you make?

 

Character my friend ... where does it come from?

Character my boy ... how is it formed?

Is it such my dear ... that it develops?

Is it thrown at you ... when you are born?

 

Who did I become ... a product of the environment?

Who is the “me” ... that stumbles through life?

Who is the “me” ... that lives to own detriment?

Who is the “me” ... that looses without strife?

 

Is it not amazing ... the start of a new day?

All things should be quiet ... as my brain wakes up.

My body has been moving ... lying “right-away”

weighing all the options ... gathered in a cup.

 

Jan Wienen

 

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