Sunday, June 24, 2012

Horizon Dreams


Horizon Dreams


To bed to sleep to retire tonight;
From daily tasks, find some rest.
Close the drapes and tuck the covers tight;
Day is done, sun has gone west.

To work to toil to earn tomorrow
Your due worth for every day,
Plus some for the future to borrow
When no more you earn your pay.

To home to stay to roost to the end;
Life taken at its new pace.
To leisure and ease you now descend;
Longtime patterns to replace.

The children are grown and moved away;
Their lives now their own to choose.
Some moments with you they pause to stay,
But their time, not yours to use.

To need to have no plan to follow;
Your tapestry unravels.
Listless lolling in a deep wallow;
Stay put, no daily travels.

To count not days, but the passing years,
For weeks are full of Sundays.
Go out, old man, and find new frontiers,
Lest you sink into malaise.

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