IN the SANDS of TIME





In the sands of time ...

We've begun a climb

Up the steps of our history

Into another century ...



Our communal future begins

Connected to two thousand pins

A number we have designated ...

By counting the years since we stated ...



The Son of God was that day born 

In a manger - during a storm ...

Visited by three Eastern kings

Bearing incense and other things



Marking a point from which we now count

Time ... proceeding from this very fount

And now, as we begin the next thousand

Amidst all the cheers and rabble-rousing ...



We must bear in mind the faith we have stored

Which has decreed the years from there to fore

... The tenets of that faith abound in our lives

No matter how much strife undermines our pride ...



And - as we begin the new century ahead ...

We do need to remember that faith in good stead

For our lives are ours to control - thru all our years

So, whatever good we do - rides on our own cheers ...



- Tristram



© Christopher W. Thomas

9:15am Friday, Dec. 31, 1999