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
