Hello Fellow-Traveler...

 PAD Challenge day one; Write a morning poem

 Just can't resist showing a pic of my newest-sweetest-baby-est fellow-traveler

(our grand-daughter, not quite 2 days old)

Hello, fellow trav’ler of pleasure and pain

Of twilight’s goodnight and dawn’s ‘begin again’

Because none of us sets out to fail or fall

Let’s lean on each other and love one and all

Hello fellow-trav’ler where we always meet

On morning’s fresh threshold of gold or gray street

Where we all grow old if we’re given the chance

So let’s help each other through each day God grants

Hello fellow-trav’ler of high road and low

My, my, but what waits to be we cannot know

Where future is never the picture we drew

And we're all just learning what we thought we knew

Hello, fellow-trav’ler where Time’s tolling bell

Soft-nudges us nearer to tears of farewell

Where no one can tell when death’s knell bids us part

So let’s love each other with all of our heart

…and let’s greet each morning like an honoured guest

In all that life offers let’s give it our best

And taste like word-sugar love’s sweetest words yet

Hello fellow-trav’ler, so nice to have met

© Janet Martin