Life is More Than Light Cajoling...

 Around here the trees have suddenly burst into bloom and life seems 'refreshed' but...

Life is more than light cajoling

Night to morning, morn to night

It is more than moments rolling

In Time’s tireless tick-tock flight

Life is more than bitty seasons

Spilling wonder to our gaze

More than Reason’s futile reasons

To annul our foolish ways

Life, for all its slip and stumbling

Life for all its moment-boast

Is more than a faith-fear fumbling

Nor the grave its uttermost

It is more than nature’s showcase

More than yearning shaped in years

It is not a road to no-place

As its last mile disappears

Life is mercy’s grand enrollment

To a roster, Jesus-bound

For He suffered our atonement

Therefore life is holy ground

....and we are Love’s blood-bought children

Not bound for some dead-end goal

We are dust-to-dust creation

Harboring an ageless soul

Therefore life is like a pathway

Time, its sweep of sky and sod

Death, the awful, awesome gateway

Leading to the throne of God

© Janet Martin