Here's another poem I wrote back then and was my first poem and was also published:

- - TEARS OF A TOAD - -


What is man’s purpose in life?
Is it only to work and take a wife?
Or to be lazy like a sleeping cat?
Or can life be much more than that?

Always love thy neighbor, is what is said
Yet they bash homosexuals on the head
With all the world’s turmoil and strife
Can this truly be the meaning of life?

The meaning of life puzzles us to no ends
Is life such a quandary, we’ll never make amends?
To shake one’s head is such a pitiful excuse
When it only takes one to stop all the abuse

Life’s questions, we could quite easily ignore
Let’s just rape and pillage, to even the score
I sit and ponder over all my doubt
Should I stay and fight, or just get out?

Should I give up, to run away and hide
Or take a stand and fight for God’s side?
I have no choice but the latter bumpy path
For I once had doubt, but finally did the math

Is mankind possibly worth all the heartache and tears
Or should I just leave them to their false hope and fears?
Oh how the twinkling thought of humanity being reborn
Provides me enough hope to fight and endure man’s scorn

Life is infinitely full of doubts
With all its peculiar ins-and-outs
We ponder over the silly stupid things
While missing out on what love brings

To search for the true meaning of life
Won’t be found in a gun or even a knife
It comes from within and pours out from the heart
To love everyone is to give mankind a fresh new start

The meaning of life thus does evade
Only those weak souls who are afraid
To question everything with all your might
Will give you the answer to life’s oldest plight

It’s said there is no rhyme, or reason
Yet even life has a purpose, a season
To fill another’s heart with hope and joy
Is life’s greatest pleasure, its main ploy

If mankind finally wakes-up and sees the light
Humanity will for all time be able to unite
To come together with only one purpose in mind
To end world hunger while leaving hatred behind

I wish I could do something to bring this about
To give humanity hope and end all the doubt
But there is nothing I can do in the middle of the road
But to sit here and cry through the eyes of a toad


- - Toad - -