as the day passes - winter

 

as the day passes
arching overhead
I'm grateful for the privilege
of being here
and being fed
the fruits of feeling
at life's great fleeting
while bravery and fear
come to all abiding here;
none are unscathed
so let us choose to be bathed
in whatever is good
and what is right
for this will save us
from feeding the night,
and at the end
the message we'll send
is that of the Light
and how God is the only
present and gentle Might;
let us just be
and make ourselves free,
so as time will press on
we'll not be in sorrow
when the day is gone.