Deal with who you are

Ponder time as ye may.   Today's time matters most.

The past a tattered flag in the wind - tomorrow but a ghost.

In the fell circumstance I vow only an authentic self

Though I do aspire to greater power and greater health.

My will a phantom, God's word an ethereal thing

As each morning greets me, I'll see what it shall bring.

God is who He is.  I am what I will be.

Nothing further to plan.  Nothing more to see.

I ponder God in passing and yet study only the now.

Rains gather in the distance, yet I've fields to plow.

Today's glory lies before me; tomorrow but a dream.

Lord set me to my task beyond the things I may esteem.

An end to all my scheming.  An end to my regrets.

I embrace only today.  Fear not tomorrow's begets.

At this moment lies a challenge. It defies my very soul.

The horizon bleak but distant.  Today has it's own toll.

So I rise though I am weary.  Don my boots to aching feet.

Come now my strained sinews.  A mark lies there to meet.

A silent peace adorns me.  A tattered flag of glee.

What comes next will find an authentic, unchanged me.

By JAPOC - Just Another Piece of Clay.  December 2017