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 Life is so much more than just a leap beneath Time's sky...what it is all about begins the moment that we die!

This season sweep of highs and lows

Of hues in blues and bronze and rose

Of happiness and weary woes

Where faith and fear are juxtaposed

…this dot beneath a tent of sky

This plot of seed and harvest sigh

This cot of greeting and good-bye

And knowing Something more is nigh

…this span of reaching for God’s grace

This teaching and beseeching place

Where we cannot one step retrace

Or any spoken thought erase

…this is a marvel spun of air

A slender thread twixt here and There

While morning gilds Time’s thoroughfare

And God cradles us in His care

…this stairway to the great Unknown

This grasping gasp of grief and groan  

Leads past a marker made of stone

To He who sits on Heaven’s throne

© Janet Martin