BE PREPARED
Be prepared and you will not fear
Are true words that we often hear,
Yet do we procrastinate the day
Iif we don’t prepare in every way?
Means of heat when power is out,
Oil lamps and candles all about,
A nice log pile for many fires warm
Love to call anyone in out of a storm.
If stores are closed, how long would you last
Without going hungry, on a continuous fast,
What of water or juice for the family to drink?
Please check out your cupboards and think.
Then what of us staying quite fresh and clean,
Soap, toothpaste shampoo and other things seen
On the store shelves that we forget to extra buy,
Without bathroom tissue we would surely sigh.
Disaster may strike as the stock markets sink
And the world again at war is on the brink.
Start now to hoard if we are not already too late,
Be a wise virgin have oil so save a terrible fate.
But all the stored food in the world won’t work,
If from building a spiritual store you do shirk,
Please let us be prepared in all things every day,
Face whatever happens, what trials come our way.
(Millicent) Ann Margetson February 7, 2003