
ON TO OTHER THINGS
October 8, 2011
Poem written October 8, 2011 inspired by not having everything I want happening in my timeframe, how my timeline may not be God's timeline and how it is important to try to move on to other things and priorities and goals, but as the last stanza indicates, sometimes the simplest thing ( a song, a thing of beauty, or a comment) brings your mind and heart back to the thing you are missing
On to other things
The order of life as far as I can tell
The sweetness outweighs the wretched
In any weather
The noise and the traffic that wander by your home
the silence and the tombstones around mine
We cooperate to help others reach the line
Alone or together
It hasn’t been long, and yet too long
It was yesterday and 20 plus years
it was miles and inches
in was days and tears
And now you are on to other things
and other dreams and other lives
and other futures fill your mind
and I am gone and faded and weathered
So I will go on to other things
Then stop and pause
when one more thing
Brings my heart and mind to your door