Terrell Martin Poet Rhyme

The Calling

It’s taken many years of falling
To finally recognize my calling:
Through miles and miles of endless seeking
All the while truth kept retreating.
Just out of reach, fading from sight
Like dew in the morning
At the break of light…
Rising imperceptibly, tangibly unreal,
It’s taken years of toil and tears
For my calling to reveal.
Itself, in a many splendored way like
Butterflies from moths…
Beauty is as beauty does
Without counting what it’s lost.
Down in the tunnel of yesterdays
Countless minutes, hours, years...
Hearing the call, after all
Is music to my mortal ears.
That came it seems as love in dreams
Without warning or affair:
The calling was like falling
Freely through thin air.
Until I hit reality and summer struck me cold:
It’s been a long, long lonely winter
And I’m no longer feeling old.

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Delysia Hendricks August 28, 2012 at 11:26 PM And your calling is ..... making me lose sleep wondering what your calling is? No mind, pal. I'm happy you've found your niche, whatever it may be. Me, I'm still flitting all over the show and trying my damnedest to avoid stepping into that perfect niche that will slow me down. Hey, great poetry, as ever. :)

Elizabeth Wesley August 28, 2012 at 6:46 PM Worth reading this a hundred times; Soupmail

Elizabeth Wesley July 20, 2012 at 9:37 PM It took me a long torturous time to find my calling too Terry, was the trip worth it? I don't really know there were so many mistakes along the way. You have a way to get me soul searchiing my frien. Where are you now, still over seas or did you get home? Love, Lizzie

Ilene Bauer June 27, 2012 at 5:08 AM i like this poem and i like the fact that at the end, i'm still not sure what your calling is (i hope i didn't miss it!). it doesn't really matter, though - the fact that you're "no longer feeling old" says it all and is a wonderful way to end it. Terrell Martin June 27, 2012 at 7:59 AM Thanks Ilene...the calling is a secret which need not be revealed right now. The point is, some people find their calling early in life and others, like myself have to wait awhile. Some people, I suppose, never find what it is they're looking for. We're blessed to be on the road to self discovery. Thanks again for your thoughts:)