Of Common and Sacred Sureness

Update: When I wrote today's poem I didn't dream that this would mark the day of

the death of  our Beloved Queen Elizabeth II 

No matter how we get there,

we sacredly and surely all will!

(and so nice to have helping hands along the way!)

One thing we have in common

No matter who we are

A sure and sacred summons

Will fling a Door ajar

That leads into a portal

Where Time will cease to be

From mortal to immortal

For all eternity

Farewell to all comparing

Where we dwell side by side

The tent of our bearing

The means of our ride

However high or lowly

Of sky and land and sea

All are bound for the holy

Gate of eternity

Ferrari, Lamborghini,

Bike, airplane, mule and cart

The wheels to infinity

Is not the crucial part

The mode of transportation

In death, disintegrates

When the God of salvation

Parts eternity’s gates

This world’s clutter and clatter

Is the fleeting façade

Of a most sacred matter

‘Prepare to meet Thy God’

For He alone is waiting

Where time no more will be

No more doubt or debating

For all eternity

…where what we have in common

Is Time’s sure curtain- close

Who next will hear death’s summons

Only life’s Giver knows

As Last Breath dooms or frees us 

Pray, which one will it be

Either Satan or Jesus

For all eternity

© Janet Martin

Mark 16:16
Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, 

but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Revelation 14:7
And he said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give Him glory,

 because the hour of His judgment has come.

 Worship the One who made the heavens and the earth 

and the sea and the springs of waters."

Revelation 15:4
Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? 

For You alone are holy. 

All nations will come and worship before You, 

for Your righteous acts have been revealed."

Heb.2:1-4

Therefore we must give [a]the more earnest heed

 to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.

 2For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, 

and every transgression and disobedience received a just [b]reward, 

3how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, 

which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, 

and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him,

 4God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders,

 with various miracles, and gifts[c] of the Holy Spirit, 

according to His own will?