The Watchmaker's Lesson

The watchmaker gave the young girl a gift

A watch with a word that could change her world

Across the face that held hands ticking time away

“Eternity” in small letters printed

She wore this watch daily and pondered this thing

And how the weight of this could rebalance her life

The boulders that would trouble her when to eternity held

Specs of dust that the wind blew away

As years expired, the watch was retired

Trapped in the daily worries she became

She lost the freedom to not be caged in each moment

Too bound to build life with imperishable perspective

That which mattered faded in felt importance

Her value became based on things that would never last

She forgot that the body she hated, revered, and painted

Would soon be rotting away

She marveled at how life's brevity could crush her 

And then be so easily forgotten

How hard it was to hold on to that death would inevitably cut 

The cord that kept her soul tethered here

The watchmakers lesson

Precious time is worth

The things that do not turn to ash

When held to the fire of forever

Verses: 1Peter 1:7, Matt 6: 19-21, 1Cor 3: 10-15, Luke 10:41-42, 2Cor 5:1, 2Cor 4:18, 2Peter 1: 13-14, Psalm 103: 15-16