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The Time is Now: common measure

Published on May 6, 2025

The only time is now;
your thoughts and prayers and plans
imagining the future won’t
get you out of quicksand.

short measure

It’s movement that you need.
Look down – there at your feet,
is where you start out to the street.
You’ll need both strength and speed.

hymnal stanza

For the battle isn’t out somewhere,
waiting as your courage grows.
No, it’s here. You’ve haven’t got the time
for might-have-beens or clever told-you-sos.

long measure

What you believe is worth your living for –
that’s what’s at stake right now. Make no delay;
without you, its survival chance is poor.
The time is now. There is no other day.

long hymnal stanza

06 MAY 2025

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Imagining the Cost: common measure

Published on February 13, 2017

For those hard up against the wall,
imagining the cost
they pay for each small victory,
compared to what is lost,

when those who may yet stand
refuse and meekly kneel,
or worse, just fold their praying hands
against reason’s appeal,

may be the hardest part.
What honor is enough,
to heal such wounds as these,
succor the sterner stuff,

when those you fight to free:
the so-called meek and mild,
deride your vanity
and chide you as a child

to put away your swords,
and fight no more anon,
since all that’s clean and good
has long been dead and gone.

13 FEB 2017

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