"Counting My Blessings"

Placid my lake a memory
Reflecting golden the sky
Counting my blessings
Through spacious hours -

Like plumes that wave
On a midnight scene
Lights on my shoulder
Shimmering the dawn,

A stork standing still
The shadow looms
Just like the moon
Tucked under her wing,

Feeding in the shallows
Tadpoles in a hurry
Under lily pads green
My home as the child -

Lazily the dream I wake
Storms passing me bye
Midnight in my gown
Time that seems asleep,

Lonely the old age room
Sun drawn into the sky
Surging on into daylight
Shining a light in heaven -

There my life will survive
With the flow of my soul
Sweet music in words
The day to come soon,

One day by surprise
where without fear
Or lingering late
My Savior waits.