Forecast For 2017

 There Will Be Birthdays...

Easter...

Christmas...

 New Year...

 ...and so much more!

Laughter...

Thanksgiving...

War...

Love...

These cards were once-upon-a-long-ago sent to my grandparents...

There will be death

And birth

The earth

Will bear the brunt

Of haste and greed

But by divine

Authority

The bark will bloom

With broken seed

There will be tears

And fears

The year

Will burgeon with

Uncertainty

There will be hate

And love and war

And faithful God’s

Fidelity

There will be rain

And pain

And grain

Fields rippling

Gold ‘neath golden sun

There will be loss

And Sunday dinners

And mothers praying

When day is done

There will be June

High noon

Blue moon

And soon petals

Where snowflakes fall

There will be bloodshed

Horror, hope

And heaven for some

But not all

There will be care

Despair

And prayer

To He who

Never changes, no,

Though churches stand

Bereft landmarks

Of faith forsaken

Long ago

Yes, there will be death

Birthdays,

Weddings,

Both firsts and lasts

Will turn to dust

There will be doubt

But never without

God, wherein

Mankind may trust

© Janet Martin