One Eternal Round…

March snow drips heavily

Seeping into muddy fields

While waiting seeds yield

Another season of spring

Another tree bends in the wind

Whether it be palm or oak or willow

Another April tulip sways

Another June sunset closes the day

The August days of heat

Paint an October scarlet leaf

And another storm laden cloud

Blows the December snow into drifts…

It all blends together

in this chaos of living

Pain, joy, birth, death

Nothing more than a breath…

Another life begins

Another life ends…

And so the round clock

Sets the course of our lives

Continuously…

Momentarily…

Temporarily…

Constantly…

Until we reach

Beyond the unseen veil

“The undiscovered country

From whose bourn

No traveller returns…”

And the loud ticking minutes

Of a mortal journey

Become the peaceful serenity

Of gentle eternity