The Awesome Before

Happy, happy, happy first day of Fall! 

It's decor begins to find its way to trees...

and porches

I want to want the ache of you

Be torn between time’s old and new

Of green-gold-scarlet-umber-blue

As sweep of soul-song plumbs

The arcs and deeps of dark and dawn

The larks and leaps of here-then-gone

Darling, I want to want the song

That life and love becomes

How sacred is each step, each breath

How thin the skin twixt life and death

The swell of earth’s four-season heath

Is like a tolling bell

Each morning’s morning soon will slip

Into the blue of noon then dip

To dust-hushed, dusk-flushed fellowship

Ahoy, ahoy, farewell

I want to feel the keel of years

Hello, my love, good-bye, my dears

And be flummoxed by tick-tock’s spheres

That seal present to Past

I want to mourn the death of days

Yet hunger for the more that splays

Where morning sets Time’s hearth ablaze

With moments not yet cast

Then, at that final set of sun

When this life’s little ‘Let’ is done

I want to want what is to come

And whisper, thank-you Lord

For what we see is but a Door

To what will be; Forevermore

Where Now is the Awesome Before

The Ultimate Reward

© Janet Martin