Sum of It

 PAD Challenge day 10: For today’s prompt, take the phrase “(blank) of (blank),” replace the blanks with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

one precious 'moment-crumb' in the sum of it!

 

Oh, what will become of it

This which weaves the sum of it

Shaping what we thought we knew

Into revised points of view

Where life’s drill of give and take

Spills into hope and heartache

Turning what we thought we learned

Into degrees not yet earned

Teaching us as we grow old

Thankfulness for what we hold

Waking us to bit-by-bit

Creating the sum of it

Making us, as we proceed

Keened to moment’s potent seed

Where not some but all of it

Will become the sum of it

© Janet Martin