The Words - Poem
- Greg Luti
- Jul 1
- 3 min read
In this poem, Greg Luti explores the lasting power of words across a lifetime — from the ones we’re given as children to the ones we carry into our final moments — and the quiet, unspoken words we might one day offer.
There are many words you are told to remember in this life.
As soon as you are born, the world cannot wait for you to talk, only for them to tell you to shut up, and force certain words down your throat.
You will remember some of these words in your life.
I am sure that some of them will mean very much to you, and to who you are.
Perhaps some of them you say at your marriage, or at your graduation, or at other important life moments.
These words stay with you, whether you wish for them to or not.
For how else can we truly remember a moment if the words we uttered while there are lost?
I played that game too.
The game you play.
The game we all play with these words.
But then it hit me one day that the most important words you, or I, or anyone else, will ever have to know will never be discussed.
You have not been asked what you are to say to the Creator when your time is done on this earth.
When you are done living, the life you have is over, and you are to be taken away to the other world, the spiritual world.
Do you know what you are to say to the Creator when you meet him?
If you are like most, you have not thought much about this very situation, for we are a people so caught up with life, we forget about the very one who gave it to us.
So I ask you, what would you say to God when the time comes?
