The Diary of Life

In the book of life you are writing

You alone are the one

Who can write upon those pages

A true record of what you have done.

The day the last page is finished,

It is certain you cannot know,

So think wisely of what you are writing;

Try and make it worthwhile as you go.

When the diary of life has been written

And is finally yellow with age;

When all the deeds of your lifetime

Have been entered upon each page;

Will the acts that before you are listed

Be things that you are proud to review

As there on the desk of eternity

The diary shall be opened anew?

~Virginia Katherine Oliver~