Sacred Thread

 PAD Challenge day 19: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) Thread;” replace the blank with a word or phrase; make the new phrase the title of your poem; and then, write your poem.

Since I seem to be drawn to Alison Krauss's music these days, how about two more more?

Ain’t it fine, love?

Aint it lovely?

Aint it somethin’ to behol’

We don’t need to

Fret or worry

God is always in control

When the thread

Of life-love-laughter

Gets all tangled in our sigh

Someone is still

Looking after

All the knots we can’t untie

Aint it precious,

Aint it perfect

We of mortal dust-to-dust

Never need to

Fret or worry

If our hearts can learn to trust

Trust Him with

What-if and maybe

Trust Him with this thread of Death

That becomes

A sacred lifeline

When it frays with our last breath

© Janet Martin