Beauty-calls

Sometimes Jim just shakes his head when I say,

'Gotta go! Beauty calls!'😊

Ecclesiastes 3:11 

He has made everything beautiful in its time. 

He has also set eternity in the human heart; 

yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Beauty calls, thus task will wait 

Before the sun falls past the gate 

And tucks the twinkle of today 

Its mementos of fleeting fray 

Into The Land of Far Away 

Beauty calls and bids us pause 

To marvel at its gifts because 

So much of life is harsh and hard 

So much of love is sorrow-scarred 

So much of laughter is tear-starred 

Beauty calls; we should reply 

So small beneath the big old sky 

But tall enough and not too old 

To balk at Duty’s rigid hold 

Beauty’s sheer wonders to behold 

With eyes to see and ears to hear 

And mouths to speak a word of cheer 

It dawns upon us wondrously 

We have the wherewithal to be 

Part of the call and the beauty 

© Janet Martin