What of this Vast Unknown?

Writer's Digest PAD Challenge, day 15; For today’s prompt, take the phrase “What (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

We balance on a fulcrum twixt

What is to come and what is past

This paper cup that we lift up

Will snare wee drops of unknown’s cast

And then we drink; Unknown to known

Our footsteps fraught with faith or fear

From mystery to memory

While still the Unknown hovers near

Perception’s possibilities

Inspires us to dream, explore

We paint the passion of our pleas

On castle wall or prison floor

Yet, we are never nearer to

Unknown’s elusive clarity

Confined it seems, to dream our dreams

On what is past and what will be

What of this vexing, vast Unknown?

Its fantasy perplexes thought

Yet, we are ever poised upon

What yet will be and what can not

Fear would persuade my dreams to die

Save for our God upon His throne

Therefore, by His blessed Grace go I

Into the vexing, vast Unknown

© Janet Martin