Now, That's Living

 ...so when Victoria asked why the 'special-with-candles' supper it was easy to reply, 'you'...and she twirled away like Mary Poppins singing...Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Don’t ever envy anyone. Just make the most of every moment while you can.

 Dorothy McGuire in the movie Claudia

So then, before it is too late,

Lest we stare back with faces grim

Let’s take the moments that yet wait

And fill them to their utter brim

Let’s soften silences with smiles

Or dash along that outer edge

Where come-and-get-me Day beguiles

Then falls away like silvered sedge

  

Tomorrow winks with hungry haste

Yesterday like a dead husk lies

Today is all that we can taste

Beneath time’s blue-gray-golden skies

Let's slurp and never mind the spills

But let life drip wild off our chins

Today's once-in-a-lifetime fills

This cup that we hold up; grace grins

Then, dare to do more than just dream

And dare to brave this new day-rise

Dare to dance, glad upon its stream

Seizing each moment like a prize

Lest we stare with our faces drawn

When, oh, alas it is too late

Because ‘what is’ has come and gone

An epitaph on Eon's gate

© Janet Martin