LOOKING FORWARD AT YEAR'S END

LOOKING FORWARD AT YEAR’S END

At precisely the stroke of twelve last night,

My birth year came to a progressive end.

Seven decades furnished to me to tend.

I reflect on them with grateful delight.

I crowded this gift of years with child’s

Play, aspiring art and a loving wife,

Came children, studies, work, a selfless life

Lived in service to others and God smiled.

Sounds immodest perhaps, I speak of call

From God to whom I’ve been obedient.

No option when seeing the greater gift

Of Jesus who by dying gave it all.

Here I am Jan 1 conscious I’ve been sent,

Years to invest and then divine uplift.

(Although I prefer free verse, I like the occasional challenge traditonal poetry. Here is a poem styled after the Scottish sonnet, with rhyming pattern of ABBA,ABBA, CDE,CDE and with ten syllables to each line)