When We Begin To See

PAD Challenge day 23: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “When (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then write the poem. 

When new day forges from dark deep

A gorgeous steppingstone

To lay beneath both sky and feet

The measure to move on

When new ways come to dis the old

And test the tried and true

With theories, daring and bold

And foreign to our view

When we begin to feel the sting

Of time’s insistent thrum

As we struggle to wear the Thing

We once felt so safe from

When we begin to see how thin

The veil that separates

Immortal soul from mortal skin

And Time from timeless gates

Then we begin to realize

The frailty of sod

And we, if we are meek and wise

Will seek the hand of God

© Janet Martin

 You have made my days a mere handbreadth; 

the span of my years is as nothing before you. 

Everyone is but a breath, 

even those who seem secure.

Psalm 39:5