What is the use of labouring too hard, <br />When things you do are all impermanent? <br />What is the need to pamper, spoil your ward, <br />When you can’t guarantee his temperament? <br /> <br />The bounty crops you harvest can’t be stored <br />For future years for it deteriorates; <br />You bear more stress to earn while you get bored, <br />Life-style diseases more it generates! <br /> <br />Most things you do on earth appear futile; <br />We have to leave all things you slogged for here; <br />You better do the things divine than vile, <br />Before your end of earthly time is near! <br /> <br />If only you listen to God today, <br />Your life on earth will be in Heaven’s way!<br /><br />Dr John Celes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-the-futility-of-earthly-achievements/
