Of Seeds Softly Falling

  PAD Challenge day 29: For today’s prompt, write a what nobody knows poem. 

These seeds we sow

We’ll never know

How far or full the reaping

So, pray that we

Sow carefully

Where yon harvest is sleeping

Though it appears

It may be years

Before its full-fledged calling

Tomorrow yields

Where today’s fields

Hold now-seeds softly falling

© Janet Martin

 'Very much of our future life will depend upon our earliest days', said preacher Charles Spurgeon on January 15, 1893, then quoted Mr. Ruskins, not quite verbatim, ' people often say we excuse the thoughtlessness of youth, but he says no, it never ought to be excused. I'd far rather hear of thoughtless old age when a man has done his work, but what excuse can be found for a thoughtless youth? The time for thought is at the beginning of life and there is no period which so much demands or so much necessitates thoughtfulness as our early days...I would that all young men would think so.They say that they must sow their wild oats. No! No, my dear young friend. think before you sow such seed as that what the reaping will be. See if there is not better corn to be found than wild oats and sow that, then think how you will sow it and when you will sow it for if you do not think about the sowing, what will the harvest be? '