It's Today...

It’s today; the threads of yesterday can never be un-spun

Tomorrow is a canvas on which nothing can be done

But now, beneath our feet and hands, oh see its offering splay

The framework of accomplishment transpires; it’s today

Step bold and humbly to the runway of time’s offering

For soon its coffers will be emptied of its silk and string

But now unfurls the imminence of all we do and say

To each the same, a span of moments to employ; Today

The pattern of a lifetime is not woven in the morrow

The filament of yesterday we cannot steal or borrow

But now, the invitation rings from morning’s gold and gray

As mercy lends its bounty in another gift; Today

Do not despair or try to bear what we can never alter

The past and future are its own; beneath their weight we falter

But God above in gracious love imparts His strength and stay

And He will give us just enough for what we need; Today

© Janet Martin