Challenge Calls Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

CHALLENGE CALLS
Across Time’s wild uncharted seas
Challenge calls to innocence,
refusing safety on the fence,
acknowledging that time is breeze
vagrant and that each must seize
the moment when intelligence
cannot itself prevail through sense
too narrow, predefined decrees.
Through door unlocked, no need for keys.
Leave past regrets and vain expense
through calm, discover future tense
vibrating with tuned harmonies
which may combine both hopes and dreams,
choke compromise in its own schemes.

When entertaining easy options think
each step leads on to better or to worse,
victory, defeat for heart or purse
depends upon the ways these choices link.
Conformity is self-defeat. Don’t sink
to common mediocrity, a curse!
Open mind to others, share, converse.
Refuse to blindly toe the line, but ink
in all life’s pages proudly, never shrink.
Another day, another challenge, nurse
patience, judgement bias free, disburse
understanding, deep from shared spring drink.
The way towards serenity ahead
comes clear, vain envy censures, knows no dread.

(21 February 2005 second sonnet added 12 July 2012)