After-path

PAD Challenge day 6: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “After (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. 

We, armed with tools of mortal trade

Stand on a footing that was laid

By people who pass through Time’s hall

Like mighty waves that rise and fall

Always followed by those behind

…thus, wise the one who keeps in mind

The successor to morrow’s world

And mentors well the boy and girl

Waiting to fill the shoes of we

Who will have passed to history

Save for the footing that we laid

For future-students of Time’s trade

Who, new to olden aftermath

Curb stars through which to carve a path

Where still unchanged through centuries

A child is trained by what it sees

© Janet Martin

A verse that is never out-dated!

 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Prov.22:6