Natural

We enjoyed our annual February get-away to Toronto,

remarking, as always, the quickness with which this week-end returns each year.

Generally we battle biting, cold gales but this year we joined strolling throngs along the waterfront,

drinking in the gold and blue delight of a February thaw...

It is quite natural, they say

The way we find our way somehow

From far and foreign yesterday

Into a new yet older Now

The turbulence of tick and tock

Walks through us without much ado

Deriving from offspring of Clock

A new, yet older me and you

For as we learn to acclimate

Life’s 'wait-and-see' with 'my-time-flies'

We realize and ruminate

With new, yet ever older eyes

On common ground of Now and Here

We peer into time’s changing face

The balance beam of year-to-year

A new, yet ever older grace

© Janet Martin

We stopped for a mid-afternoon coffee break at Bob's Coffee Bar
(first week-end open!)where our daughter Melissa works.