Ancient Revelation...

 Some days we struggle to accept the New View...

What has been is what will be,
    and what has been done is what will be done,
    and there is nothing new under the sun.

Eccles. 1:9

It is nothing new

This rise and shine

And toil and weep

And grin and share it

With the rest

Before we lay us

Down to sleep

And it is nothing new, the test

That tries the Thing

We thought we knew

Then realize

With humble sighs

And eyes, the wiser

For the view

Soft-rearranged

And changed because

The hand of time

Is never still

Where nothing new

Stuns me and you

With arguments

Of want and will

Because we are

Prone to the laws

Of human nature’s

Ancient ways

Where nothing new returns

Save gauze that

Holds the gift

Of a new day

© Janet Martin

 

another beautiful version of this song here