Compositions of Utter Joy

Last week Melissa came home for a day, so Emily did too! When Matt and Victoria arrived after school all four siblings did a lot of catch-up talking and laughing…I snagged its ‘becoming-rarer-these-days’ canticle to meld into a memory-melody…Today Emily (on far right) is celebrating her birthday and I am celebrating 23 years of motherhood;-)

Oh, play those plush-brushed keys of memories soft, sweet and slow

For Time composes melodies unrivaled in its flow

Run suave and velvet fingers over echoes lingering

Like epitaphs upon life’s paths of morn-to-evening

Oh, touch the strings of heart-soul things; a blue-gold violin

Unleashing strains of yester-rains and time’s unruly grin

As we retrace expended grace, for living’s pace is such

That in its rush we tender much to its unyielding clutch

Oh, sing once more that lovely chorus rich with what once was

And blend upon mute moment-spawn a tempo of applause

That God saw fit to bless a bit of time’s tick-tock alloy

With memories that compose melodies of utter joy

© Janet Martin