Get up, go to work, go home, go to bed
Get up, go to work, go home, go to bed
Is this what life’s all about I said?
Work, work, work every single day
just to earn enough my bills to pay.
Surely life must be much more than this.
Someone tell me what life’s purpose is.
Then, “You can have life more abundantly,”
I heard the Lord Jesus say to me.
“I am the door: if you enter in
then your new life with me will begin.
These things of earth will just pass away,
but the life I give is here to stay.
So I turned around and followed Him
and my life’s no longer dark and grim.
I still have to work to earn my pay
but He’s given purpose to each day.
About this poem
Written after reading John 10: 10 and traveling by train to London where a 'Community' artist had written the sentence "Get up, go to work, go home, go to bed" in large letters on the railway wall leading into Paddington Station. My mind linked the words with the "chuggardy chug, chuggardy chug" motion of the train and the poem has been re-written picking up the rhythm of the train.
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Submitted by royston on August 02, 2021
Modified on April 28, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | AABB XXCC DDBB EEBB |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 615 |
| Words | 127 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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