My Little Place of Wonder, The Twinkle of time

PAD Challenge day 20: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “My (blank), the (blank),” replace the blanks with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. 

On Earth's space of Time I have been ordained a little place

of wonder at what passes and wondering what is next

In this pretext of largeness is the smallness I embrace

My life; my little place among The Many often vexed

as I, by unpredictability adeptly clothed 

In Ordinary Everyday; who knows what will occur

Before the light of day is snuffed; its offering betrothed

to What-Has-Been; life-changing footfalls soon a still-life blur

On Bygone's panorama and nobody is immune

To that which, looking back is like a surreal pantomime

Yet I am dearly grateful for each faded afternoon

...my little place of wonder in the Big Twinkle of Time

I wonder, as I wonder at the grace that let it be

How soon My Little Place of Wonder will be history

...and then I wonder, as I wonder at the smallness of it all

If I have left Something of worth on earth in my footfall

In this Pasture of Time my place is quite a little room

Yet, there will never be another me among its bloom

Janet Martin

...and the irony as I wrote of unpredictability;
a phone call to let me know that the little guy I babysit
will not be coming today