Take Time Out to Think About...It

PAD Challenge day 14: For today’s prompt, write a time out poem.

Bird-watching...the feeder is quite the hot spot in the morning!

This slick parade of tick and tock can take one by surprise

Veiled in heaven’s kaleidoscope of sunset and sunrise

The age-old chants of ‘how Time flies’ in new mouths is renewed

As we begin to realize how swift time is subdued

And then we plan to take the chance to dance a little more

And take time out to simply sit on Mother Nature’s floor

To slow the feet that fain would meet the breadth of day to day

With little more to show for than the rest who passed that way

Sometimes the time we didn’t take can smite a sudden blow

So we vow not to make the same mistake with its new Now

…then stoutly say, maybe today, we’ll pause a little bit

And take time out to think about the Grand Purpose of it

The quick parade of hope-trust-faith does not lead to the grave

But wholly, holy draws us to the Crux of all we brave

Where dust to dust is but the mortal must of flesh and blood

Before the Awesome Evermore…the Door that leads to God

© Janet Martin

One glimpse of heaven would suffice as reply
To earth's age-old question of why, why, why?