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
Before Soul slips through that which leaves all halfway points behind
© Janet Martin
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