Endings

ENDINGS

"Where did the summer go?"

Everyone is saying so.

Each year the same question is asked, you know.

Summer: now a memory that time stole.

Too soon September arrives aglow

with colorful leaves putting on a show

before falling down slow,

crunching under our toes.

This past summer was one filled with various foes

who ate vegetables faster than they could grow.

These foes were either bucks or does, to my woe,

and a 'possum was entrapped a few weeks ago.

A few miles up the road it was towed

to start its new beginning or no

thus ending the carnage daily bestowed

as it nightly crept in on silent toes.

I'm still combating moles or voles, though,

eating beets under the netted row.

One mole met its demise, ho ho,

when a mousetrap ended my woe.

Summer's ending means one won't need to mow

fast growing grass every weekend or so

though soon it will be time to rake then tow

a mountain of falling leaves, we know.

Another sign of summer ending is the garden slows.

Quietly withdrawing with fewer blossoms in each row.

Squash vines turn brown losing their healthy glow.

Tomato plants no longer produce or grow.

Before long it will be time to harvest and stow

as the wheelbarrow is piled high then goes slow

for each year a bountiful harvest makes a heavy load to tow

before freezing or canning vegetables lined up in colorful rows.

Harvest signals the end of summer all aglow

with colorful flowers and vegetables bestowed.

Summer ended becomes a distant memory of ago.

The summer to come, becomes a dream on which hopes will grow.

So endings become new beginnings we now know.

The circle of life completed as days and weeks flow.

Summer ends, autumn begins, winter comes around again when cold snow blows.

Before we know it it'll be time to hoe rows where summer vegetables will grow.

So a new beginning is sowed

where hopes and dreams begin to grow.

Soon we'll hear, "where did the summer go?"

Endings come to everything, we know.

* * * * *

As the seasons end,

so does life end.

Solomon, in his wisdom, talks about life ending

which is in actuality a new beginning.

A home in heaven for eternity

available to all – that's you and me.

When we believe that Jesus, God's Son, died on the cross

of Calvary in order that we not remain lost

in our sins

and rose again

we will have a new beginning

when we die, not an ending.

In time we will be forgotten on earth

with our name on a marker in the dirt.

But we're not forgotten in heaven for God has our name written in his book

if you believe Jesus died and rose again for your sins, that's all it took.

In time our time on earth will end.

I plan on seeing you in heaven.

There is no remembrance of men of old,

and even those who are yet to come

will not be remembered by those who follow.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

I declared that the dead, who have already died,

are happier than the living, who are still alive.

But better than both is he who has not yet been

who has seen the evil that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 3:2-3

However many years a man may live,

let him enjoy them all.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Then man goes to his eternal home

and mourners go about the streets...

and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 12:5b, 7b

 

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