Let a Solemn Bell Toll

You often are anxious 'Bout what tomorrow wombs Bearing in your burly bosom The scrap of fractured dreams, plus The plight of postterm pregnancy Occasioned by a closed cervix uteri. And another year is gone again; Sailing on a silent sea With the wings of time flapping I let a solemn bell toll For the sum we add is the sum we lose And man counts up to time limit. But would fractured dreams mend When fires are not dead? For though fulfilment seems to sojourn somewhere faraway Still, the spirit seeks with ardent tenacity. When hope is not forsaken Would the child come to birth? Whether yes or no, On earth dreams may crash And hope, clouded forever in illusion; But in dreamland beyond the earthly cares Where man's soul delights in forever bliss A never failing promise remains for us.