Of Footholds and Age-old New

 They wander about for food and growl if they are not satisfied.

But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength; 

Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning, 

For You have been my stronghold 

And a refuge in the day of my distress.

O my strength, I will sing praises to You; 

For God is my stronghold, 

the God who shows me lovingkindness. 

Ps.59:15-17

The dark veil rends

And from the line

At the base of the sky

Mercy extends light's soft incline

From God

To you and I

Before twilight

Will tuck its hem

Around the girth of earth

I wonder what time will unfold

From this age-old

New birth

Dawn’s fresh foothold

Is pink and gold

It’s lark-song ladder spills

Up through new blue

Into the true and perfect

What-God-wills

© Janet Martin