Already...to the second day of 2016...

Already the date that cut the cord

To 2016, at midnight’s gong

Has joined those ranks ‘of former things’

And sealed its signature in song

Already the steady wedding of hours

Has claimed to Bygone’s misted courts

The grinning firstborn of New Year

That midnight both births and aborts

Already we sense the changeless change

Time exhales in spite of intent

To rearrange our habits, oh,

Already the day is sorrow-rent

…and bent with human-nature’s ways

Already we sense a falling apart

That would prevail, save for God’s grace

To wounds bleeding deep in the heart

© Janet Martin

Isa. 42:8-9

 "I am the LORD, that is My name; I will not give My glory to another, Nor My praise to graven images. "Behold, the former things have come to pass, 

Now I declare new things;...