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