1THE MEASURE OF A LIFE by Rick Taubold (copyright) (published: Candlelight Poetry Journal, Spring 1998) 1Who can measure the worth of a life and rate its degree of success? Who is fit to judge another, with no sins of his own to confess? A life is filled with memories, the sum of many years, anxieties and trepidations, and friends who calmed those fears. It's known much joy, shared much grief, given hope where none was seen, lived by faith and not regretted the things that might have been. And when a life has reached its end, and nothing seems left undone, it reflects on its conflicts and struggles, the victories that it won. It reaches one conclusion, the only one it can find: The truest measure of the worth of a life is the love it leaves behind.
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