An Unexpected Host...

Forever is an unexpected Host

Future to past a subtle interchange

Before and ever-after juxtaposed

Like speeding north and south-bound phantom trains

One weighted with Unknown’s eternity

The other with what nevermore can be

And we, it seems straddle the middle track

Caught twixt looking ahead and looking back

Slow down, whoa now, you hasting Thing of need

Where rare and priceless diamond-farthings bleed

I thought I loved you then, but oh, but now

My love has multiplied ten-thousand fold

The seeds have grown, how full the heart-sheaves bow

Where youth, eager for more than they can hold

Are unaware as yet of what we learned

As once upon a time our hunger burned

Like theirs, but oh, but now we cannot grasp

The ease with which the future becomes past

Then, an epiphany of common awe

Stuns us with the deftness of mortal law

Forever never alters its firm stance

Nor can it be persuaded to recoil

Should we on bended knee plead one last dance

With what has become victim of Time’s spoil

There is a Forever that waits beyond

This ballyhoo on earth’s wee  blue-dot pond

But oh, the Forever that first we taste

Comes on us with suave, unforgiving haste

Striking a sword to heart-chords innermost

Forever is an unexpected Host

© Janet Martin

It suddenly struck me like a punch to the gut tonight! Today was so noisy and busy I didn’t really have any thinking time and then tonight while working outside it dawned on me that today a New Forever begins…This week-end Victoria, our ‘baby’ joins the youth group and she will have a somewhat busier social-life leaving mom with many more ‘alone’ evenings and... Time on her hands?! 

I’m trying to remember what those things were that I thought I would do WAY back when I didn’t have time to do anything but look after a family of growing-ness!

Forever seems to add to its archives far too much far too quickly...