The wind and trees and clouds and breeze
They welcome winters early freeze
The birds are silent, quiet grown
All seeming wait till night has flown !
The early morn awakes in fear
The chill and cold grow ever near
The year moves closer to the end
Where old and new are forced to blend.
There is no option to decide
This is God’s roller-coaster ride !
Here’s to the vets of every war
What was it they were fighting for
These valiant souls who fought and died
They stood alone or side by side,
For war is such an ugly thing
We’ve seen the sadness it can bring
The victor tastes both death and pain
While those who lose have fought in vain !
Now turn around and search about
There is some way to figure out
Chaos must end ere it’s too late
Or we will share the selfsame fate !
We do not know, we cannot see
What is the cost of victory,
The war we waged was so much more
What would it take to life restore ?
The years have gone, what used to be
Has changed the path of destiny
There is no way left to explain
The loss of life, the futile pain !
Be sure that wars are endless grief
From which there seems no real relief
We thought it might soon fade away
Not now or next ten thousand days !
The tears that fall are bittersweet
The cause for me remains discreet
I find that tears should hidden be,
A secret twixt my God and me.
So query then what I shall find
Before my days cease to unwind
I question what my future holds
As life before me now unfolds.
The answer echoes through the maze
And complicates remaining days
For lives will end though incomplete
In victory or in defeat !
God is my true compass along lifes road
He channels my ship no matter the load
He bellows the wind and pushes the tide
Wherever I go, He travels beside.
I’ve known for awhile I am not alone
How patient He when my goal is unknown
In the terrible tempest living brings
He’s there at the helm and when the bell rings.
We’ve traveled quite far soon our journey’s done
We’re off to the west to follow the sun !
I think I have come to the end of my dreams
Was it but pretend, because that’s how it seems.
I’m not sure I know what the next step will be
But whatever it is Lord tarry with me
Forgive my failures and stay close by my side
As I slowly begin the last of my ride.
I’ve traveled so far on my journey of light
It’s time now to enter that final goodnight.
The sound of voices I love may twist the rules
Belief otherwise is the substance of fools.
It will be, Lord what it will be
An homage to our victory
For words we’ve said and deeds we’ve done
There in dark night and light of sun.
Man is not one of patient soul
He searches for his selfish goal
And lusting for uneven chance
He will indulge the devils dance.
He’ll shift and lie and pounce and weave
Before he scurries off to leave
He has no weight and is not true
There is no faith in what he’ll do !
Hence we must wait until he’s spent
To ponder where our freedoms went
It will take time to garner strength
To help retrieve our lives at length
But we shall win have no small doubt
God is our Hero most devout !
These are the dreams that we’ve forgot
They’ll linger long or tarry not
Because we are all that we’ve got
This is our goal, our life, our lot !
Memories are gathering the clouds of the mind
Into some shape that we can recognize or find
Or file away into some dark recess to hide
When time will halt and God and nature must decide.
Some memories do cling like a chill of late fall
Reminding us swift time may not delay our call
The end is drawing near when God will let us know
He’s done with all our hopes and now it’s time to go.
This fear is what we hide while peace is what we need
At times we’re bound to find the ample cause is greed
We comprehend that laurels have no place in here
Soon time to take our leave and simply disappear.
Of all the chains the years have forged I’ve born with charity
One timeless and external torch can light no way for me
And darkens still this foolish path that will not set me free,
Igniting every shallow thought that clouds my destiny.
There is a time that shall impound
The freedom once that I had found
Which must with force my life surround
Until that day my breath’s unbound.
While madness round me all about pursues a course that’s weak
There is no simple answer to the honest end I seek,
Foolish aims that restless be have no mind nor tongue to speak
And bind my heart to olden dreams with courage often meek.
Brief chance has come and too soon passed
To rend my days with currents fast
Faith binds my hopes with vision vast,
Time leads my sight to grace at last.
There are times the sadness of this life is overbearing
While our days are spent without the hope of ever sharing
Such a painful thought of never truly comprehending
Why and if there is to be a simpler happy ending.
Those cherished values scorned by raving heretics amused
Hold faithful to a code that waits discarded and abused.
These unsung heroes thus having forged our destiny
Awaken from the sleep that took them to eternity
Engaging in a task so powerful it never ceases
Leaving us employed in scooping up the tattered pieces.
Waves of all the talents that marked our yesterdays
By those who earned the right to claim a share of glory’s praise,
“ Fidelity” a word once hopeless lost among the rules
Now challenged by this useless cadre of important fools !
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Claire V. Bogdanos 