POETIC INTERLUDE I
Thought Journey
As you journey on the highway of your mind
And change from lane to lane
you hit the bad roads and jiggle around
Seems there’s no
pothole-free-smoothness to drive
And for a vacation you drift back through time
Leaving bad memories for good
Prose left for the rhyme
Jaunting cars of rickety thought
Intermingle with soundness of cerebral ‘finds’
Then you take-off again on flights of fancy
Like the baseball bases you visit –
running round again with intermittent fun
Where are you going in all this stuff?
You hear the stopping horn and
start to clock-out
With some menial chore to attend to – previously left out
All thoughts abandoned except
the task at hand
Now banish irrelevances for something
more profound
But you just can’t reach it – that lost chord
of a thought
You’re not the man you want to be
And all of this is fraught
with anxiety
You decide to get out of here
Go have a night on the town
But you’re past that now – as you act your age
Living in the present –
Best to make the right decisions count
Everything is held up to the light
You don’t have to struggle or even fight
In this battle of life – time takes you away
To the last round-up of frailty and repose
But solace is here where God is to be found
So lie back after a stretch and a yawn
Tomorrow you can sing another song
Give yourself a certificate of
passed-with-credit
And make your way next time to a distinction
Your life is your own – it is in your power
But when you give it over as daily you should
Don’t lie to God – ask Him to judge
As random thoughts will find themselves together
as-kith-and-kin
Some sense will be made out of
strung-together verse
You stop at the great imponderables for solace
And know you’ll find acceptance
in The Beloved.
