New Year Madrigal

 Wishing you a blessed New Year!

'"The LORD bless you and keep you;
The LORD make His face shine on you, 
And be gracious to you;…
Num.6:24-25

The notes of living rise and fall

Composing Bygone’s madrigal

Across thought’s scale of high and low

Echoes of loss and triumph blow

They trace the place where constant change

Cannot return to rearrange

The bars where stars and darkness spar

So very near yet oh, so far

From where we are to where we’ll be

When this New Year is history

And all we do not know begets

The snowy ash of Morrow’s Yet

As retrospect and prospect meet

In dissonant chords, bittersweet

To splay upon yon quiet night

A lay that each today will write

Where the best human race can do

Is trust God’s grace to see us through

© Janet Martin