Elemental Metamorphosis

PAD Challenge day 6: For this Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

Write a change poem and/or...

Write a don't change poem.

The gold-etched puddle caught my eye this morning providing

the springboard to today's poem-prompt!

Dawn...

Gold etches remnant sketches of gray’s shattered aftermath

It gilds the place of tears to cheer the pilgrim on life’s path

From what we cannot change to what we can; where young and old

Are at the mercy of the Hand that begilds gray with gold

What is soon changes; elemental metamorphosis

Father Time soon estranges us from everything that is

So, before we begin to fret about all that is not

We’d better take a better look at all the good we’ve got

Because before we know it, we will look back on today

Change is on the horizon brimming with both gold and gray

Where for better or worse is always never very far

And change is often taking place exactly where we are

© Janet Martin

Change is on the horizon brimming with both gold and gray...

Dusk...

...and points in between...