One More Day

The song, Amazing Grace, lofts me into clouds that surround

Me as I undress and put myself to rest for one more day. Time

has now become the coin of my realm.  Spending it wisely is my

new challenge.  I don’t know why it has taken me so long to join

that cluster that musters smiles of joy as they deploy themselves

to find tiny pieces of wisdom that lead them through the winding,

defining channels of darkening days. Even as rays of sun have begun

to cast shadows on their path ahead. Good times did not die, they

just lie in wait over that hill that now fills the diminishing western sky.

When it grows dark, the meadowlarks sing their sweet songs to tuck

away the day.