What lessons are learned
From the talismans of time
Is life absurd
Or is it sublime?
Smoke on the mountain
Fire in the sky
So much pure beauty
No one asks why.
Why do the sunsets
Remind we must die
Why do sunrises
Urge lift up your eyes?
Why then is darkness
An ensign of sin
Why is the light
How all life begins?
Why is there beauty
When frost kills the leaves
Is it reminder
Of his dying for me?
Snowflakes in winter
Each one unique
Blend into an oblivion
Pointless to seek?
What are the harbingers
That remind of the past
What signs presage
What can and will last?
Jesus once queried
Why the signs in the sky
Are easier to read
Than the Kingdom drawing nigh.
God’s ways are not our ways
Our eyes remain blind
To the signs of his purpose,
Of an orderly mind.
Signs of the seasons
Hint how things will be
Beauty and truth
In true harmony.
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