Slip Sliding Away

Slip sliding away, slip sliding away

You know the nearer your destination, the more you slip sliding away

Whoah God only knows, God makes his plan

The information's unavailable to the mortal man

We're workin' our jobs, collect our pay

Believe we're gliding down the highway, when in fact we're slip sliding away

Slip sliding away, slip sliding away

You know the nearer your destination, the more you slip sliding away

                                                                                                Paul Simon

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the walk was slow

and long tonight

the full moon haunted

and the fiery end of the day

failed to ignite

hope or joy

sometimes I feel as if life

as if I

am slip sliding away

slipping into a place from where there is no recovery

there is nothing big that is bad

there are many things that are good

and yet

and yet

it feels as if work is a thankless task

that people see my faults

and are often blind to the good I have done

In a few years I think they will give me a retirement party

and the party will begin after I leave

the little church I serve, just slowly shrinks

it goes on and on

in spite of people I love 

who hang around and tolerate me

(for whatever odd reasons)

I know what I would say to others when they hit this point

Just keep walking

Take another step, and then another

Don’t look back, look forward

Don’t focus on what is dark

Focus on the light

And yet I take a step

And it feels as if there is no room left

I have hit a wall

I know

Yes I know

And deeply believe

That just as the sun set this evening

So the sun will also

Inexorably rise

And there will be

Another day