The Best We Have...

The best is not yet left to come

The best we have is now

Ah, who knows what in morrow’s sum

Will fill its who-where-how

For what has passed will not return

And what waits, none can tell

Then pray with what we have we learn

To treat its treasure well

...and with the gift swift time allots

Of Now we have and hold

We ought to cherish ticks and tocks

Like jots of precious gold

And ever for the joy of love

Live today, kind and glad

For it could be the tally of

The Best we ever had

© Janet Martin