Biding Time Within The Distance Between Chance And God’s
5.13.2019
Joseph Sanders
June 2, 1789
Killed by a bear
He couldn’t get away in time
Twelve years later
Chief Rising Eagle
And the Watando tribe
Settled for the winter
Tee-Pee’d families warm inside
Susan McAby
In May of 1823
Planted an tree
In memoriam
Of her sister Amy
In this very spot
Life happened
History made
Some lose
Some win
And in time
We all find
It’s happened again
53 years later
Sylus Finch
Hung from that oak tree’s
Largest branch
At the turn of the century
Milfred Halston
Opened a school
For the township
Ralston
Roy Main and Sally Middleton
Class of ‘21
Shared their first kiss
On its steps
Right in front of everyone
In this very spot
Life happened
History made
Some lose
Some win
And in time
We all find
It’s happened again
8/3/1953
Nico ‘the Comb’ Fife
Only wrecked his wheels
But he lost his life
You get the idea
But it comes full circle
And in this very spot
Nothing short of a miracle
Sebastian Sanders
June 2, 1989
Born at St. John’s
The hospital standing where
His great, great.. grandfather Joseph
Was killed by a bear
Born on the anniversary
Two hundred years
Do the numbers
It’s against the odds
But not impossible
Nothing is
Biding time within the distance
Between chance and God’s
Death by bear
Then a birth held there
Completing the circle
A birth for a death
One’s first
From another’s final breath
Two centuries
To the day
Stand between
But less than ten feet square
A long pole could lean
In their distance
Inches to spare
All the while
And in between
Life happened
Do the numbers
It’s against the odds
But not impossible
Nothing is
Biding time within the distance
Between chance and God’s
Don’t believe me
But what are the odds
July 4, 1826
John Adams
And Thomas Jefferson
Two revolutionaries
Died on the same day
And on their 50th anniversaries
Of their Declaration of Independence
Biding time within the distance
Between chance and God’s
