Here is what I consided to be one of the best pieces ever written. Too bad the author is unknown.

Don't hurry to touch
For the touch may be false
Don't always listen
For the words may speak the untruth
But observe
For the eyes- they never lie

My Favorite poem to date:

A Soul's Soliloquy.

Today the journey is ended
I have worked out the mandates of fate
Naked, alone, undefended
I knock at the uttermost gate
Behind is life and it's longing
It's trial, it's trouble, it's sorrow
Beyond is the infinite morning
Of a day without a tomorrow

Go back to dust and decay
Body, grown weary and old
You are worthless to me from today-
No longer my soul can you hold
I lay you down gladly forever
For a life that is better than this
I go where partings ne'er sever
You into oblivians abyss

Lo the gate swings wide at my knocking
Across endless reaches I see
Lost friends with laughter come flocking
To give a glad welcome to me
Farewell, the maze has been threaded
This is the ending of strife
Say not that death should be dreaded
Tis but the beginning of life

- Wenonah Stevens Abott


I think it is one of the best poems written. It flows better than any I have read. I'll be posting more soon.