Recognizing Right Now For What It Is...

 Once upon a time there was a little boy who declared that 'tree apples are way more 'liscious than store apples'...

 Sitting beneath fruit-studded limbs seemed to give him an idea...

How do I reach them, he asks...

uh-oh, how do I pick them? he wonders, hanging on for dear life...

...and they all munched happily ever after;-)

Sometimes those moments of no-second-thought

Return in moments of rather-have-not

Then we remember the splendor of days

We don’t remember for their common ways

Sometimes, when life is a kick in the lip

We look with new eyes at what we let slip

Then, often we are quite dumbly surprised

At how life’s best days are humbly disguised

Sometimes our wish and want puts us to shame

For while we wish we miss what Past will claim

Sometimes the treasure of ‘best memories’

Is as simple as pleasure of child, apples and trees

Sometimes (how about right now) we should look

At what we see like an almost-mem’ry-book

Then I am sure we would gentle our stare

And handle 'right-now' with tenderest care

© Janet Martin