The Impact of 'This'

 I quote this verse often 'cause it's a good one...

'This' is the day the Lord has made.

We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Ps.118:24

Soon dawn’s peach gauze will fall away

Then it will be a new today

And how we choose to use This bit

Will be the lifelong sum of it

Its hollow sky is full of hours

Its moments die like petal-show’rs

Ah, soon the bloom and leaf of spring

Lies beneath autumn’s folded wing

Harvest hymn and heart-lullabies

Gather within our human sighs

Wind-song whimpers long, languidly

Where summer’s green sheen used to be

Our comfort zones are full of ‘ifs’

Dawn’s virgin tones, a gracious gift

Its battle-ground before us laid

In This new day the Lord has made

God, forgive us when we forget

The fragility of life’s ‘yet’

And let us ever keep in mind

How soft each ‘This’ is left behind

© Janet Martin