But One Thing We Know

PAD Challenge day 29: For today’s prompt, write a what nobody knows poem. It’s easy to write a poem about what everybody already knows, though it may be difficult to write an interesting poem about such things. Still, use today’s prompt to explore things people may not know–secret stories, locations, and so on.

Nobody knows, until they are taken

What waits around today’s bends

And nobody knows when we will waken

Where this world’s aging ends

But one thing we know

For sure and for certain

Death will draw

That final curtain

Nobody knows what hereafter looks like

Or then, when we open our eyes

How we will feel, our images trite

In the 'sights' that we surmise

But one thing we know

In this dust-to-dust span

Time will defeat

Every best laid plan

Nobody knows how far Forward flows

Until God’s touch will sever

The chord that binds Time’s worldly woes

To Unfathomable Forever

But one thing we know

This breath-stint on earth’s sod

Ends, then death opens

The Gateway to God

© Janet Martin