The Un-Secret to Going the Distance

PAD Challenge Day 4: Write a going the distance poem

Nobody knows for certain just how far The Distance is

Life’s change of plans and circumstance does not adhere to dreams

And oft upon our willful way we lay Intent amiss

Then battle the despair when care ignores thought’s subtle schemes

But since the dawn of Time, through pantomime of season-spawn

The way to go The Distance has not changed; keep keeping on

The Path of Least Resistance may appear an Easy Street

It lures us to loiter where life seems easier until

The day when who we thought we were is mandated to meet

With opposition where wishing won’t rearrange God’s will

Then we, faith-pioneers must learn, like they who’ve come and gone

That all who went the Distance did so just by keeping on

Those who have gone the distance knew love’s hurt and hunger too

How un-brave hope can be, how common-hard this forward-plight

But with prayer-primed persistence, step by step they saw it through

And victory is sweet because it comes after the fight

Thus we like those before us use the same old stumble-stone

But we can go The Distance too if we keep keeping on

© Janet Martin