Ageless Innocence

 How is it after all this time simplicity still amazes us most?!

This bedrock of centuries where dawn is hung

Boasting no newness beneath its old sun

Unfurls new morning on hinges of grace

Teasing our touch to its guiltless embrace

Come, for the hour is rife with Time’s kiss

And all we know but a glimpse of what is

Discov’ry lures and draws us from our tents

We are all children in its innocence

Fully amazed by Time’s dauntless demise

Like ancient trail-blazers we, no more wise

Struggle and stumble to learn what they knew

Drinking like foundlings the dawn and its dew

Ah, ageless innocence; simplicity

Stuns us to silence where babble would be

But then the laughter of nature and child

Rouses a chuckle in us as God smiled

Knowing regardless of our blatant boast

Man cannot fathom mercy’s uttermost

How can it be after all our fuss

There is still friendliness in this old dust?

There is still innocence; how can it be

After desecration of centuries

Over and over our visage is awed

And all we can murmur is, thank-you God

© Janet Martin