New Day

A new day

     New time

          New era dawning,

New plans and challenges

     Seem to abound.

 

Old friends estrange

     As priorities change

While lives rearrange and

     New friendships are found.

 

New blazed directions

     Discover affections

          So many selections

To batter about.

 

And I in my wisdom

     Will brave criticism

To choose from among them

          And count them all down.

 

Forward projecting,

     Backward protecting,

          Ever correcting to

               Sight and to sound.

 

Laughing and weeping,

     Time crawling or creeping,

          Constantly keeping

               My feet on the ground.