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Topic: Minute(s) (as in time) (03/03/11)
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TITLE: The Next to the Last Minute | Previous Challenge Entry
By LINDA GERMAIN
03/10/11 -
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ADD TO MY FAVORITES
Or what would they say to me
With minutes slipping like the sand…through the glass
When all that time in life I thought I had…is spent
Will I wish I’d cleaned more floors
Locked more doors, done more chores
Or will I cry from never saying what I meant to say…
Or even just exactly what I meant
Maybe there’s a way to make a case
For practicing the script I should have read,
Purely from my heart, and not my head
The one I meant to read instead…but somehow fell into a foolish hole
If we could interview the folks beyond that pale
In Heaven or in hell
About which precious minutes they’d redeem to fix that place they sadly erred
With stabs of sin which injured their…or someone else’s…fragile soul
Like finding money just in time
Would minutes here and there--erased and redesigned
Stop one crime, or save one dime, or help us toe a straighter line
Or make us suffer such remorse it’d change the source of one divorce
Not being metaphysical or lost
Inside an abstract study aimed to strain my brain at any cost
To prove some theory, relative or not, about the time I’ve tossed
I simply wonder how I’d claim those increments and tweak my course
And better yet, here’s what I know for sure
I can’t un-scramble eggs or un-ring bells or sanitize all things un-pure
Or redirect each mess I made or mend crushed hearts or be a cure
But as I live, still breathe, and think about the past and all the foolish waste
I realize I cannot mourn the might-have-beens
Or delete the consequence of sins
Or fix some unknown pain to kin or friends
But for all that…and just a speck of wisdom now in place
I pray I've learned and discerned
And turned about-to-face
With Grace
The minutes left to run my nearly-finished race
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Ephesians 5:15-16 (NKJV)
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
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Good insight and discernment.