Moment-um

With every tick and tock of clock

And every sunset-sea

With every little step we walk

And every breath we breathe

With every word we say or pray

And every thought we think

With each good night and new today

That passes wink-by-wink

With every touch and taste and take

And make-a-memory

We tread a tide that ebbs the wake

Before eternity

With every yes and no we choose

Where dues are certainty

In spite of all that Past accrues

And we no longer see

With each hello, I love you so

And each farewell, my dear

With each hold-close-then-let-it-go

With every smile and tear

The gap twixt here and There recedes

Ah, pray we bend our knee

And ready ourselves for death’s needs

Before eternity

With every drop of rain that plops

And every season weaned

As granaries are filled with crops

And field and furrow gleaned

With every folding of the hand

As we lie down to sleep

And every tucking in of land

Beneath cold winter’s deep

With every seed and every deed

No matter who we be

For one and all our footsteps lead

Into eternity

© Janet Martin