NEVER-LIVED-BEFORE-WEDNESDAY

Never before has this day come,
     never to come again.
Here — an unspotted canvas:
     never-lived-before-Wednesday
awaiting the blessing native only to its time,
its gatherings of love and wisdom.

     Here —
     this time,
     this moment followed by moment
      blessed by the light of now,
     the only stream of light to touch me,

     generated by all my pasts —
     portending all my future —
     bathed in the blessing of now:
     a link to all that is to come.

Like the majestic steam locomotives
fronted by “cowpushers,” hissing steam
as they overwhelmed train stations of yesteryear,

     I give Your Spirit permission to clear the tracks
     of all invaders to Your Purpose;

     all intruders from the past
     all spectres from the future

          that this day, this never-lived-before-Wednesday
          may be ours — to labour in together:

                    bathed in the Light of now,
                    pure to Your purposes
                    native only to this very Time;

                    fragile to all other time.