Precious Time
This beautiful short poem reminds us to use the Time we are given to fulfill our, dreams, goals and purpose Now!!
The Climb
A small boy heard the mountain speak,
“There are secrets on my highest peak;
but beware, my boy, the passing of time.
Wait not too long to start the climb.”
So quickly come and go the years,
and a young man stands below- with fears.
“Come on-come on,” the mountain cussed
“Time presses on-on, climb you must.”
Now he’s busied in middle-aged prime,
and maybe tomorrow he’ll take the climb.
now is too soon – it’s raining today
Gone all gone – years are eaten away.
An old man looks up – still feeling the lure.
Yet, he’ll suffer the pain – not climb for the cure.
The hair is white – the step is slow.
And it’s safer and warmer to stay here below.
So all too soon the secrets are buried,
along with him and regrets he carried.
And it’s not for loss of secrets he’d cried,
But rather because he’d never tried.
~Phyllis Trussier