When I Get Time I Know What I Shall Do | Eastern North Carolina Now

    I have been fortunate that I have lived long enough to do most of the things that I put off while earning a living and running on life's treadmill. Not everyone is that lucky. One of the poems that have always impressed me as a kid was one my mother often read to me. I still have the book of poetry she used as a primer to the more significant side of life. It is full of wit, wisdom, sorrow, inspiration as well as lessons if only I took the time to learn the. It is my go to book when I want to contemplate that deeper side of life. It is somewhat dog-eared and worn but the words are as fresh as they were when she first read them to me. This particular poem is in the public domain now. If you are still on the treadmill, I encourage you to read the poem and then set aside a few moments each day to a few of the things this poem suggest. After, all 'We are not promised tomorrow'. This little Sunday Sermonette has been brought by Bobby Tony and his mom.



WHEN I GET TIME


    When I get time -
    I know what I shall do:
    I'll cut the leaves of all my books
    And read them through and through.

    When I get time -
    I'll write some letters then
    That I have owed for weeks and weeks
    To many, many men.

    When I get time -
    I'll pay those calls I owe,
    And with those bills, those countless bills,
    I will not be so slow.

    When I get time -
    I'll regulate my life
    In such a way that I may get
    Acquainted with my wife.

    When I get time -
    Oh glorious dream of bliss!
    A month, a year, ten years from now -
    But I can't finish this -
    I've no more time.

                      Thomas L. Masson (1866–1934)

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