Thursday, November 21, 2024

O Joy, that beckons me!

O Joy, that beckons me!
Why must you wait upon the
 shelf, gathering dust as the years
 decompose all that is, while the
 yoke of life drags us day-by-day,
 ever onward and back, unsure
 whether we the horse or the cart?

Inflame my breast once
 again, yet temperately, that I not
 abandon duty and forsake the 
 charge that is my privilege and
 destiny, but rather, provide a 
 beacon to illuminate the path that
 others must drudge through in
 these small hours.



        previously published in All Seasons (2021)

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