A Poem for Today

Ode to the Past

The light grows dim

As the evening sun gleams its last light

Storm clouds pass over

Extinguishing what little remained

I settle myself in an easy chair

To wait for the night

Life has taken its toll

As the path was rugged

It had been so narrow at times

I could barely step

So steep,

 I clung with curled fingers and toes

Oft though it had opened wide before me

As I moved with great speed

So much speed I missed the grandeur

And all the greatness it offered

There were times it seemed not a path

But a vast river flowing towards the sea

And I a single fish

Struggling to reach home

Always I seemed to be alone

But as I consider now my course

I realize it was never so

I was never alone

There beside me was my family

Friends led me along the way

Always forward

And God watched and waited

In this journey, I’ve seen great things

And petty things as well

We all struggle to understand ourselves

As we try to know the unknowable

Soon enough night will arrive

Its stars a reminder of lives well lived

The moon casts it reflected glow

On all the world cloaked in silence