Hi Ace! My 2 cents... to toss or take! I like it very much.
Epitath
It all went so fast; >>>>>> colon instead of semi-colon? I should have looked more; I should have listened; and, perhaps, sometimes felt more before now.
IMHO, the trouble with the ending is that it appears that the dead person is "feeling more" now that he's dead. That would perhaps be OK if he also looked more & listened more from his tomb, but it doesn't read that way.
If you want to, you can just put commas at the end of L2 and L3, and then we have a vision of a dead person actually regretting the whole three..!
Wonderful epitaph! Reminds me of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River, except that he's more extensive.
Syl***
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Mis temas favoritos The Lord replied, my precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.
"There is no life higher than the grasstops Or the hearts of sheep, and the wind Pours by like destiny, bending Everything in one direction."
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