Laboring in vain
Deuteronomy 31:21 New English Translation (NET Bible)
21 Then when many disasters and distresses overcome them
this song will testify against them, for their descendants will not forget it.
I know the intentions they have in mind today,
even before I bring them to the land I have promised.”
Honoree
“Labor for the Master”, following own directions
Walking in own footsteps from the day before
Here and there some stumbling wanting some attention
From a cloud of witnesses waiting by the door
Wherever it started I have forgotten long ago
Shoved to the wayside by my sense of perfection
Following most guidelines as onward I’ll go
Flowing from my mind into all directions
“Narrow is the path” in this barren dessert
I wish I could see it as I am moving on
I just keep looking backward as the steps I measure
Knowing that somewhere in time I see where I began
Morning, afternoon and night molded all together
The slide-rule of existence marking lack of progress
Of all things understood very few things matter
As through my persistence I’m giving up the quest
Is it all worth it? This lifeless world of guessing
Why seem most free while the tab is increasing?
Maybe all in all we are still progressing
To a destiny well-known hidden from self-appeasing
Jan Wienen