Beginnings

 

It does not stop

Yet

Endings are merely beginnings

Of what is next

Parting begins the waiting

Until we meet

Waiting begins the trusting

Of life’s bitter-sweet

Trusting begins the shaping

Of our faith

Faith begins the Hoping

After death

And death begins

The hereafter

The hereafter

Has no end

Time does not stop

Yet

But it will,

My friend

And we should give earnest heed

To where we will be

When this life’s end

Begins

Eternity

© Janet Martin