Little Life-Lyric

Rooster scratches in the dirt

Politicians spar

Love endures both joy and hurt

Son gets his first car

…Daddy walks down memory-lane

Where youth escaped somewhere

Between toil’s pleasure- stippled pain

And twilight’s rocking-chair

Cat sprawls in the morning glare

School-bus crawls away

And wedding-gowns are hanging where

A baby used to play

Apple trees shed petal-song

And mother sheds a tear

For what yet is and what is gone

And what must disappear

Creek flows chartreuse over moss

Road-rage results in death

Dentist tells patients to floss

Casket wears baby’s breath

War, dream, first dance and dirge converge

The old is new again

Summer unfolds spring’s budded splurge

The farmer prays for rain

Fashion-fame-fortune’s futile flaunt

Struggles to re- impress

Flowers bloom, wild in woodland haunt

Mankind seeks happiness

In churches, markets, lovers, home

Want stains earth's soil, blood-red

Beneath the city hobos roam

In search of daily bread

Rooster scratches in the dirt

Politicians spar

Love endures both joy and hurt

Time, its peace and war
Holding on and letting go
Ceaseless metronome
Centuries rise to melt like snow
God is on His throne

© Janet Martin