Tug of Ink

PAD Challenge day 10: For today's prompt, write a struggle poem.

To board dawn's gleaming barge

While seasons ebb and flow...

To know when to say ‘yes’

To know when to say ‘no’

To hold to hope and happiness

Amidst love’s letting go

So much to touch and kiss

So much that used to be

So much to balance with the bliss

Of unpenned poetry

Today is always new

Immune it seems, to age

Let’s never grow too old to woo

Its poetry to page

Let’s slow dance, cheek to cheek

What is to be will be

Enough, my love to learn to speak

In tongues of poetry

Let the masses deploy

Long ladders to success

Enough, my love, to feast on joy

Of poem happiness

To press past the façade

Of front-line highs and lows

And to feel the *pleasure of God

In poems to compose

To board dawn’s gleaming barge

While seasons ebb and flow

To stay true to the humble charge

Of life’s ink undertow

© Janet Martin

"When I run, I feel God's pleasure" Eric Liddell

Acts 17:28

‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ 

As some of your own poets have said,

 ‘We are his offspring.’