Oh Time

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Oh Time
In hopes that time brings us wisdom

Oh, time, the sower of all notions,
The thread that binds emotions,
Creator of all thought.
You are the seed of faith and hope and wisdom,
The youthful flush of burgeoning dreams.
You pace the slow and solemn steps that age has brought.

Remove the chains you’ve laced around my feet
It’s long enough I’ve walked your cold, cobbled streets,
And whistled through your graveyards late at night.
Lift up, through love, both child and man
Who’ve wandered in your blessed land.
Raise up their souls to starry heights.

For then shall questions all give way
To what the heart at last will say.
In faith this man will do his best
To bring comfort to himself and those he loves again.
To sort the truth among the things he can’t explain,
And let the light of understanding salve the rest.

What heart resolves against another?
A husband and a wife, father, mother, sister, brother?
When loves collide, have said the things you feel. 
There will be doubts but in the end,
Have touched the hand of those you may offend,
And in so doing, most trespass can be healed.

Because no door should stay forever closed
No heart should harden for all time, ‘gainst those
Who are God’s children, and in His eyes are blessed.
When WE are old what then will we regret?
Things we did or did not do? Pain that we could not forget?
The car we drove, the work we did, the way that we were dressed?

Then on to joy, to spring, to sea and sun!
On with love and life, to roads we’ve just begun!
To fresh cut grass, a woman in her summer dress,
To watching, when she doesn’t know, the sunlight on her hair.
A picnic lunch, a flop-eared dog, a drive to anywhere.
This is heaven’s music at it’s best.

Peace and Love, DaVinci