BORROWED TIME

BORROWED TIME

IN CLASSICAL ROMAN

AND GRECIAN TIMES

THEY BELIEVED

IN THREE GODS NAMED

THE FATES

A TRIO OF SISTERS

WHO WERE CHARGED

WITH THE THREAD OF LIFE

ONE

CLOTHO WAS THE SPINNER OF THE THREAD

ONE

LACHESIS WAS THE MEASURER OF THE THREAD

ONE

ATROPOS CUTS THE THREAD TO AN APPOINTED LENGTH

THERE WAS NO APPEAL

IN JAPAN

THE CHARACTER FOR THE WORDS THE END

AS FOUND IN MOVIES AND BOOKS

IS MADE UP OF TWO CHARACTERS

ONE IS A HOUSE IN WINTER

WITH ICICLES ON THE ROOF

ONE IS AN EMPTY THREAD SPOOL

TOGETHER

IN POETIC EASTERN IMAGERY

IT MEANS

THE WINTER OF THE THREAD

THE END

IT IS FINISHED

YOU’RE LIVING ON BORROWEED TIME

THE DOCTOR SAID

YOU’RE LIVING ON BORROWED TIME

THE MEDICINE IS KEEPING YOU ALIVE

ODD SAYING

IS THERE A BANK

WHERE HE CAN BORROW TIME

PERHAPS FROM RELATIVES WHO DIED UNTIMELY

OR VICTIMS OF WAR RIPPED UNTIMELY

OR FROM CHILDREN WHO WERE BORN

NEVER TO LAUGH BUT DIE EARLY

THE SAYING DOESN’T HOLD UP

TIME NOT USED IS TIME GONE

IN ANCIENT EGYPT

ENTRANCE INTO PARADISE

WAS BASED ON WHETHER YOUR HEART

PLACED ON A SCALE AGAINST A FEATHER

WEIGHED LESS THAN THE FEATHER

BEFORE THE WEIGHING

THE SUPPLICANT

JUSTIFIED HIMSELF

WITH THESE WORDS

1.    I have not done iniquity.

2.    I have not robbed with violence.

3.    I have not stolen.

4.    I have done no murder; I have done no harm.

5.    I have not defrauded offerings.

6.    I have not diminished obligations.

7.    I have not plundered the neteru (gods).

8.    I have not spoken lies.

9.    I have not uttered evil words.

10.I have not caused pain.

11.I have not committed fornication.

12.I have not caused shedding of tears.

13.I have not dealt deceitfully.

14.I have not transgressed.

15.I have not acted guilefully.

16.I have not laid waste the ploughed land.

17.I have not been an eavesdropper.

18.I have not set my lips in motion (against any man).

19.I have not been angry and wrathful except for a just cause.

20.I have not defiled the wife of any man.

21.I have not been a man of anger.

22.I have not polluted myself.

23.I have not caused terror.

24.I have not burned with rage.

25.I have not stopped my ears against the words of Right and Truth. (Ma-at)

26.I have not worked grief.

27.I have not acted with insolence.

28.I have not stirred up strife.

29.I have not judged hastily.

30.I have not sought for distinctions.

31.I have not multiplied words exceedingly.

32.I have not done neither harm nor ill.

33.I have not cursed the King. (i.e. violation of laws)

34.I have not fouled the water.

35.I have not spoken scornfully.

36.I have never cursed the neteru (gods).

37.I have not stolen.

38.I have not defrauded the offerings of the neteru (gods).

39.I have not plundered the offerings of the blessed dead.

40.I have not filched the food of the infant.

41.I have not sinned against the neter (god) of my native town.

42.I have not slaughtered with evil intent the cattle of the neter (god).

SURPRISINGLY LIKE A CHRISTIAN PRAYER

IS HIS HEART LIGHTER THAN A FEATHER

WITH FORGIVENESS FROM GOD

HE KNOWS IT IS

BUT LOOKING BACK

HE KNOWS THAT MANY OF HIS DAYS

WERE NOT ADMIRABLE

BUT THEY ARE FROZEN IN TIME

IMMUTABLE

BUT FORGIVENESS HAS A PRICE

CHANGE

MAKE THE REST OF HIS DAYS BE BETTER

THAN WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE

GOD WILL SMILE AT HIS EFFORTS

AND HIS HEART WILL SOAR

FRANK A VOLLMER