Just and hour

Just an Hour

Just an hour
to last a thousand years,
for it is my fear
to pass my time on earth
avoiding death
and yet to meet my fate,
to do so much
almost in a breath,
to build a world
to last beyond the grave,
to love, to plant,
to grow my seed,
to be so brave,
to save the land,
to be a man of age,
to leave a decent name
engraved on a soul,
it all in just an hour
to last a thousand years.

Copyright ©2001 Joseph Berolo