Let's Enjoy What We Have...

 February, it seems now, was a blur of babies-birds-blooms-books-baking beauty!

...though at the time it seemed like a lot of messes and modest busyness:)

Let’s enjoy what we have while we have it

For time’s surefire undertow

Draws its ‘before’ into ‘after’

And its ‘hold’ to ‘letting go’

Let’s enjoy what we have while we have it

Time is neither friend nor foe

Bastion of both tears and laughter

…after 'hold' comes 'letting go'

Let’s enjoy what we have while we have it

Lest tomorrow we regret

Missing what Today once offered

Before ‘After' sealed its Let

Let’s enjoy what we have while we have it

Live and love full-well because

Soon, no matter what Now’s grant is

It slips to a world that was

Let's enjoy what we have while we have it

Life's 'Best Ever' wears a veil

Soft and slow its threads unravel 

To reveal Bygone's regale

© Janet Martin