Christmas day has come and gone, the season yet to be over. A variety of thoughts and feelings have been plaguing me. The various Christmas movies watched get me to thinking about friends and family. The stories cause me to pause, and ponder life, abundant blessings, and choices.
With all that said, words managed to flow into the menagerie below.. left raw and unedited.
The day has come and gone, the feeling fleeting
Lost opportunity, lost chances for meaning and value
Close but lost, the bells of failure peel their pall
Desires of her heart unfulfilled, broken pieces
Unidirectional, time plods ever onward, ever forward
Looking rearward can change nothing behind the present day
Save the choices of the morrow yet becoming
The precious seconds tick away, with no mind for their use
Actions and consequence interlocked with time and choice
Neither to be undone, only applauded or forgiven,
Be the good or not, actions falling the mind, master or
slave
Legacy anxiously awaiting the revelation brought with
history
The diminishing peel of the bells echo ever more softly,
The present imperceptibly washes away to time long ago
Yet memories keep it alive for better and worse
Learning from failure may not be failure at all
New chances for redemption come with the next tick
Courageous decisions bid against cowardice, change is
difficult
The constellations, the north star, learning provide the
atlas
Navigation, course correction ever present ever available
Small course corrections, made by the smallest rudder
Vast, unfathomable changes in destinations, whether intended
or not
Vigilance, awareness, the map, and small corrections
Arrival to new shores, or the best of the known returned
Successful passage, or shipwreck the captain alone chooses
The ship of action, time, opportunity
The map of grace, forgiveness, compassion
The navigation the Captain selects
Choose wisely my Captain,
See the truth, be the good
Seek justice, mete mercy
In all things look for love
Time moves on
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