This Flight of Night and Day...

 

Been growing older...and old-ish with Alan's music,

from Here in the Real World,  Chasin' that Neon Rainbow  etc,to this one, The Older I Get

Interesting how an artist's writing and song choices change with the years:)

The older we get the more, not less, we start thinking about what's ahead

and what's important!!

This flight that leads to heights unfathomed grants another rung

Our senses tuned more meekly to It than when we were young

Thought’s scope of bold imagination turns a keener ken

To hope and soul salvation and mortality of men

It is a holy-fear-riled Thing; this breath-by-breath approach

Toward the Lord, where severing of skin and soul encroach

…and there is no escaping what will come and never pass

Love’s ultimatum shaping so much more than days of grass

No, no, don’t turn your head away and say it isn’t so

Our personal appointment date with God, ah, who can know?!

Don’t turn your heart from Him yet somehow think it will be well

Or slap each other’s backs and laugh and say ‘see you in hell’

Love does not leave us grasping blindly at some shrine engraved

Look at the cross, repent, believe and cursed soul will be saved

How awful is the thought of death and then The Judgement Day

If Unbelief, with final breath let’s heaven slip away

This flight of night and day is like a staircase through the stars

But laid beneath man’s bumbling breach on cradle-to-grave bars

And only by the grace of He who suffered Calvary

Are we prepared to not run scared when Mercy’s face we see

Holy, holy, someday we all will see Him, Love Sublime

The Son of Man enthroned, carried on clouds will shatter Time

The stars will fall and some will call on mountains then to hide

From Righteous Wrath of He who bled on their behalf and died

How is it hope and dread are so intricately entwined

Souls clothed in blips of dust-to-dust will soon leave earth behind

As daily grind, heave-ho, yes-no slips through an Awesome Door

This flight of night and day folded into Forevermore

© Janet Martin