Eternally loving clockworks

Relinquishing the fear of death

With each day awakened to

And strung together

Like so many unexpected visits

From reality

Evenly spaced lessons

Compelling us to reach deeper

Into the hidden wisdom

Of God’s perfect balance of reverence

And reward

This do I seek in my daily flow

This do I know

For without life times

The rush of wisdom would blow us away

But mercy is kinder than hard sellers

And patience knows only the discipline

Of perfect timing

So I worry not on the journey

Though others try to convince me

Into that of which I cannot partake

Convicting themselves in the process

While I reach another step

On the stairway to heaven

And when there is shade

It is a holy rest for the soul

God knows the sun is sometimes

More than the day can handle

And the time has come

For Him to touch me in a dream

On the night before my cue rises

To the dawn of another reality

So goes the circle of life times

In the solar system of sanity

John Christopher

1988