Boon of New Today

Psalm 40:16

Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee:

let such as love thy salvation say continually,

The LORD be magnified.

Above the boon of New Today

A slice of moon slip-slips away

Time’s primed pronouncements of decay

Presents us with love’s latest charge

Where so much worse and better waits

To rush dawn’s diamond-studded gates

…a big balloon that dusk deflates

but now is like a gleaming barge

...bearing us to new highs and lows

Where farewells, disguised as hellos

Untether high-fives and low-blows

Like loosed petals that glim and glance

And settle where the dust we stirred

Is cast in Past and echo-blurred

Swept up in a tide, undeterred

In the better and worse life grants

Where much enchants and much offends

Where kindness always makes amends

And life is short, so let’s be friends

Before the boon of new Today

Is swaddled beneath shadow-shawls

And lost, save in the fond footfalls

As thought retraces steps through halls

That showcase what has slipped away

© Janet Martin