Time and Tide

Time and tide wait for no man If a thing must be done, then do it Nature waits for no one It will not suffer human wit Nor patiently stall till fears do quit Nor wring it's hands, till man takes a stand Nothing in Nature needs man It is man who is only a cog As he marches through creation in a fog History is ripe with God's other creatures Some who are gone were even main features But now they are only a lonely asterisk In the big book of Nature Before that apple falls from the tree, then pluck it If you hesitate your prize is sour You must act and jump at the perfect hour Or else your moment falls to Earth Gone and dried of little worth Who is it that can see, so perfectly Only the God's who guide us through life's ocean As we seek to untangle human emotion