The cold hard past called on me today- <br />It came beating down my door- <br />Bent on destruction and living in the past... <br />Beating its drums of vengeful war; <br />Conclusion 'tis that sleeping dawgs always bark- <br />And they never forget a mistake... <br />Coming with the verity of a deep saber bite- <br />Digging up the Earth at a grave fully awake; <br />Why do these dawgs want to hold on and not forgive? <br />Are they indeed more rightous than God? <br />Who has forgiven all-who confessed and repented... <br />From their life of sins upon this sod; <br />Twenty four years have come and gone- <br />And He found me along my wrong way... <br />No longer lost in what alchohol caused... <br />New reality has been mine twenty fours years today;<br /><br />Theodora (Theo) Onken<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/twenty-four-years-today/
