It grants us dances, thwarts our steps
It lets us leap and fall
A labyrinth of dreams and debts
And wonders big and small
Laughter and longing intermix
What seems a gathered sum
Is but a bitty bubble fixed
To what it will become
It bursts the bastioned bud with bloom
Bloom spills its beaming laud
Threading the shuttle of a loom
Mastered by nature's God
Earth’s births are hinged to death, but wait
Farewell hails veiled advent
It forges from felled gold a gate
To seasons not yet spent
It never stays the same for long
This present push and pull
Composes stanzas in a song
We never hear in full
© Janet Martin
“It never stays the same for long...”
ReplyDeleteSo true. Life is change. Often, for the better... :-)
oh thank-you! What joy to leap from the springboard of an optimist!
DeleteGod bless you:)