Of Half-way and Beyond

 Happy Already-halfway-through-March?!

...prepare to meet your God.”

He who forms the mountains,

who creates the wind,

and who reveals his thoughts to mankind,

who turns dawn to darkness,

and treads on the heights of the earth—

the Lord God Almighty is his name.

Amos 4:12-13

He who turns dawn to darkness...

Already halfway through what feels like a page we just turned

Moments outpoured and shaken into lessons taught and learned

Wonderment reawakened to the way Time spills its zest

Where east horizon hoists the flare that dims upon the west

Whilst renewing the lease where dreams and circumstance compete

Then easing into archives both the bitter and the sweet

Already at the halfway point of a month just begun

As we marvel at means of ‘nothing new under the sun’

While struggling with the age-old ways of trouble and success

An elemental gauge that tunes and vexes happiness

Hinged to a Higher Power, like a flower that unfolds

To strew its petals on a path that Looking Back beholds

Already halfway through what was new not so long ago

No one can tame the tides (ides) that hide a sacred undertow

As toss of seasons rolls across the moss-glossed mouths of graves

Where none but God can see that halfway point of Numbered Days

And everyone should give more earnest heed to where time flows

Not forward but back to the One by whose kind grace man goes

If we have passed the halfway post of three-score years and ten

Then we know we are halfway through an average life span

And whether halfway through a day or week, a month or year

We ought to be aware and prepare for Death drawing near

And love life’s Giver, God, with all our heart and soul and mind

Before Soul slips through that which leaves all halfway points behind

© Janet Martin