So It Goes

 Yesterday was one of those days I didn't want to end...but it did. My niece and her fiance(his family also friends of ours) got married. I love weddings! so much. As I listened to the speeches it struck me again how precious each day is and the memories we take from them as they take their place in The Past.

So it goes; life’s highs and lows

Are brushed to closures ether-wrought

Where the refrains of what remains

Unchains their strains in naught but thought

So it goes; one season flows

Into the next; a seamless spawn

Where laughter, tears, despair and cheer

Soon disappears in years bygone

So it goes; the bud, the rose

Will soon compose their after math

Where we return to learn or yearn

For petals scattered on Time’s path

So it goes; the zephyr blows

Where clocks disclose life’s give and take

We cannot cling to anything

Save for the memories we make

© Janet Martin