Entrustments or Of Schlipping and Schlepping

New morning hosts hope’s plan-to-do

It stirs to life toil’s strife-and-song

And draws cause-and-effect along

Upon a tide of tried-and-true

Through corridors of more-or-less

Time’s rise-and-shine, come-get-me-stare

Hails beg-and-borrow’s grin-and bear

To sorrow’s care and happiness

Night’s crepuscule of raven tulle

Is pulled aside while pride-and-joy

Dawn’s for-better-or-worse employs

With cup-half-empty-or-half-full

To-be-or-not-to-be, a sea

Of rose and gold lo-and-behold

Where here-and-now is soon cajoled

From what-will-be to history

This nutshell of hello-farewell

Compels both brave and faint-of-heart

Toward the grave; left-right-foot march

While day-of-grace tolls heaven’s bell

…with grants of new-chance; Mercy’s rod

Through schlep of step-by-step's may-must

Teaches this skiff of dust-to-dust

To entrust each what-if to God

© Janet Martin

Thank-you to the 7:00 a.m. second-miler who picked up the recyling blown from the bins

 by fast-moving gotta-get-to-work traffic...

Let's all put on second-mile shoes today! Why?...

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Matt.25:40