#THE DASH POEM TEXT FULL#

But is it?ĭoes a full -term baby who dies within seven hours of birth have a dash? Does a dad who suffers from the ravages of pancreatic cancer, but leaves his children with a legacy of love for Jesus have a dash? Does a mom, whose successful financial investments permit her to buy anything she wants yet whose ego is on the throne of her heart, have a dash? Yes. The carved -on tombstone dash is sometimes little, long, short, or curved. This little horizontal line floats in the middle of a line, text, or numbers, and indicates a pause or a range. She writes that each of us will be remembered by two notable dates: our birthdate and death date, separated by a dash ( -) in between, the time we live on earth. It compelled me to think about my own dash. That devotional stirred up in me a “blast from the past” poem, The Dash by Linda Ellis. Caesar, on the other hand, is just another ruthless dictator with the adopted familial name of Roman emperors. Mozart, the most gifted composer of all time, lives on. But the most significant difference between them is their trophy, their contribution, the good that lives on.

Their similarity: both are gone forever, forever absent from sight. The other is long -lived (100 BC -44 BC) and is buried in a granite-engraved shrine. One is short -lived (1756 -1791) and buried in an unmarked grave. He contrasts the life of Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus Theophilus Mozart with Julius Caesar. Chuck Swindoll, a favorite pastor/writer of mine, wrote a devotional a few weeks ago entitled Trophies.

The dash poem text