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Day of Your Eyes
16 August 2006

One day in seven, they call a week
One day in a year, perhaps more of a lifetime
That chance encounter, as if meant to be

How does it happen, and are we to believe
in such love. For where were you that day
the day our path did first cross

What made you be there
and why did I see your smiling face
Questions, even more questions to life
that happiness, that being, that strife

Dearly beloved, in gathering this day
which of them all was eternity to last
Yet divided in means and ways to retreat
one day in seven, that day of your eyes

Could God ever grant such a day
and would that day reap what it sows
A happiness, an eternal love
that moment of joy, all in one big prize

"for Carolyn"


“They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.”
Psalm 126: 5 KJV


© 2006 Christopher W Herbert (a New Zealand Poet)

a poet who cares