Can I simply say?

 Can I simply say?


Can I simply say?

Thank you for this day

It is a gift undeserved

To find ourselves preserved. 


There is a time to shine

And later to retire

To smell the roses in the shadows

To fall in love with everything. 


The cycle of life wheels round

Brings us back to where we first begun

If we get the grace to hold on

To dance the dance and sing the song. 


No need to be at every party

If they really like you as they say

They will find you drinking tea

In the garden below the trees. 


If we’re lucky we have given  

Now’s the time to sit and listen 

To the pigeon welcome autumn 

In the hedgerow beside the meadow. 


The thrusting trees pierce white clouds

Drifting from the west untethered

Welcoming a harvest weather

Of welcome warmth on yellowed crops. 


Time to bid farewell for now

For no one knows what the future holds

When we’ll come or where we’ll go

We’ll take our leave in God’s good time. 

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