~ Awhile Sat Whittling ~
Yep I reckon I'll go out, about a bit to roam, and talk a while
and ponder I will, yep, set here and talk some alone with God
of the many a sorted thing, and I reckon to run in fun still, I might
with the wind, but as well, in a while I reckon, I'll want to go back
in to help Ma, and but real soon, and of this I'm sure, to set the table
for dinner, and play some with the young one, and feed my tiger fish
and then do some of the rest of my chores, and so it is to be mine this, my
fortune, to have a happy home now and the better of my fancy
set free, for so beset and living in way beside me, by one, the
tenderness in way of His Grace, His love has finally found me,
but still wandering, will I always be, down along that gravel road
out amid the mighty structures of the spruces with the honey humble
bumble bee, bumbling on by beside me, and never will I forget these, as
back when as to cast them, I set my dreams aloof the songs of the wind
while in love I ran about and chasing them with the little jumpy
grasshoppers ever ginger in their joy as they carried in way
within their hands my hope of this day one so to be found
whith them, and in view of God and in way of all of this,
His natural beauty, I could be seen, and as He is the one
who has granted me this time to be alone with Him, I reckon
for a moment underneath the shade of my porch roof, and
inview of the wandering sky's, for awhile I'll stay, and sit
here outside amid the judicious graces in view of the
many tendering wooding leaf and many effervescent
flower blooms and take this time and a sharpened
hand in this very simple pleasure
as well and remain right here, on this
porch, in my easy chair, and rock amid this
simple wood awhile and whittle my stick, for I reckon real
soon, this time alone with Him, well it'll be all gone, but it'll
be all mine and a brighter hope for another time, yes a brighter
hope for me, another time, on another day with Him, I reckon...
Copyright © James Long | Year Posted 2006
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