Date With Destiny

PAD Challenge 23: For today's prompt, write an appointment poem.

This date with Destiny

That no one can deny

Or somehow go unnoticed in

That Ledger in the sky

This date with Destiny

Ought to make us think thrice

About filling each moment with

Love’s gentle sacrifice

For what we leave behind

Becomes our legacy

While each breath draws us closer to

This date with Destiny

Ah Death! None can escape

The Reaper’s Swinging Scythe

Or the Appointment that awaits

As we step from this life

Then, pray that we prepare!

For Exodus Profound

For death is life's one certainty

The grave, it's common ground

This dust we stir with feet

Soon claims its due return

As Deathless Soul transcends time's toll

Far from earth's umber urn

The shadow that still falls

Across stone-stippled lea

The sacred image of the Soul

Awaiting Destiny

© Janet Martin

Heb.9:27-28

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, 

 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, 

will appear a second time, not to deal with sin 

but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.