These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

New Day's Dawn

Looking in the mirror glass
when will earthly frailties pass?
Not until the New Day's dawn
will all slips and falls be gone.

How I wish to speak just good
living best as humans should,
but the words don't always come,
making less of my hoped sum.

When we stand before the Lord,
promised grace right from His Word,
"Then you'll know as you are known,"
fit to sit upon a throne.
(I Corinthians 13:12, KJV)

Some days now in fleshly rags,
skin o'er-stuffed, it sags and bags,
but when housed in un-sinned skin,
wondrous days we'll live and win.

How can I in hopeful ways
speak the Truth of Lasting Day?
Not with falsely-stepping tongue,
caught in languages as hung.

New Day's Dawn will help the mind,
knowing thoughts, and being kind.
Google won't be needed more,
seeing eye-to-eye The Door.

New Day's Dawn will banish walls,
which have heretofore just stalled
'tween the true souls waiting hearts,
stopping love, that they'd impart.

New Day's Dawn, beyond the veil
makes these earthly colors pale.
In the light of Christ, the Lord
is the good, that He affords.

by Jay O’Toole
on April 9th, 2022