Theme: Action

If and Now

If we step back and see what a life amounts to,
   We, who are so full of it, mostly now
In expectation, that to pause is to step back;
 
If we halt the trend and make as if to not live,
   We, who witness death's statistic in the making
In other lives ended that discount our finality;
 
If we look beyond the fame and fortune, the future,
    We, who find the present so disarming it's boring
 In the kind of way that makes it 'wannabe';
 
If we encapsulate in one fine thought what it is
   We live for, which can never be but arbitrary,
In the sort of way the truth becomes embarrassing;
 
If we take a grip, a grip that's quickly lost by slippage,
   We, whose eye is distracted by a fluttering moth
In the chain drive of the requesting influence;
 
If we do that thing which we can never ever do,
   We, who think we are capable of doing it at any time,
In truth performing a lesser act, and calling it a day;
 
If we cancel the if in those first lines, fulfilling each,
   We, whose ability is enabled in no uncertain way,
In Jesus we act, in Jesus we live, and life is now.


05-Jun-2013

More By  :  R. D. Ashby

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