VANITY

I read Ecclesiastes

And ponder what it really means.

“Vanity of Vanities”

Our impotence and insanity,

“Vanity of Vanities”.

Does God lament what he created?

Is all our effort simply wasted?

“Vanity”, intones the Preacher.

vanity is in man's nature.

“Vanity of Vanities”

A life pursuing false idolatry

 abruptly ends in sad threnody.

All we have and all we are

can take us finally just this far.

“Vanity of Vanities”.

All we do will come undone,

All the victories we have won

Are tinsel in the winds of time,

Returned to dust by Grand Design.

“Vanity of Vanities”

In much wisdom is much grief

And our stay on earth is brief.

All we get and all we gave

At last goes with us to our grave.

“Vanity of Vanities”.

To every thing there is a season.

love and giving is our reason

to Live the glory of only being.

Harken to the Preacher’s preaching.

All else is Vanity.

Copyright 2019 Ken Ragan