COUNT DOWN-a poem

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith from a Place of Winter for the Years of Winter… ©

Life is not lived forward

Not really. It is lived backward

counting down

The most famous count-down

was from your mother

who gave you to the count of three

or else

We shared a whole new world

by counting down

with the astronauts

to blast off

We count down to children

and grand-children

I counted down to retirement’

for four and one-half years

Of all the species

only humans

have brains that can imagine

the future, counting down

I have one more count-down

to blast off

It started the day I was born

But I do not know the number

from which it began…

John Robert McFarland

jmcfarland1721@charter.net

The “place of winter” mentioned in the title line is Iron Mountain, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where life is defined by winter even in the summer! [This phrase is explained in the post for March 20, 2014.]

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