Ah Say, What Is This?

Ah say, what is this pantomime that thrums these walls of air

Is it the song and dance of time or

Simply someone’s answered prayer?

Ah say, what is this rise and fall that rushes and recedes

Is it the Tide of dawn to dusk or

Simply wind among the reeds

Ah say, what is this lilt and lull of plant and harvest-hymn

Is it the push and pull of toil or

Simply Season growing dim

Ah say, what is this gold and gray that floods sky, sea and sod?

Is it glints from The Painter’s tray

Or simply glimpses of God

© Janet Martin