What Is This?

 This ebb and flow

Farewell-hello

This yes and no

Where does time go?

This fight, this flight

This wrong and right

This may and might

This day and night

This bud and bloom

From womb to tomb

This morning-noon

This season-swoon

This hold, then fold

This gray and gold

This hot then cold

This young-to-old

This birth and breath

This earthen hearth

This dirt and death

This fear and faith

This sow and reap

This toil and sleep

This crawl and leap

Of little keep

This live-and-learn

This No return

This dream-and-yearn

And spend and earn

…and getting, oh,

And letting go

This sun-set show

Joy-pain-rain-snow

This sweat-stained sod

This groan-applaud

Is not for naught

This; Love of God

© Janet Martin