Forever's Mold

Let’s just enjoy today

Tomorrow’s come what may

Is still so far away

Who knows its untried wake?

But here, the loveliness

Of new moments impress

With eager emptiness

Its memories to make

So let’s enjoy this gift

Of sun-rain streams that sift

Ere ageless echoes drift

Where we cannot return

Then, let us touch and taste

With reverence its haste

Lest we its wonders waste

And thus futilely yearn

Oh, let’s enjoy today

The gold mingles with gray

Before it melts away

In vapor madrigals

Let’s hug our have-and-hold

Before its flickers fold

Into Forever's mold

As twilight’s curtain falls

© Janet Martin