With Gentle Kindness While We May...

 So many respectful words tonight as the world, esp. the baseball world, 

mourns the loss of Roy Halladay ('our' Toronto Bluejay for almost 12 of his 16 baseball-career years)

Wow, what respectful tributes are honoring his memory tonight!!

If today was our last day I wonder what would people say...

With gentle kindness while we may

Ah, what a way to live

Not keeping score or taking more

Than we are glad to give

With gentle kindness while we can

For who knows morrow’s ilk

Then we should keep the words we speak

As soft and smooth as silk

With gentle kindness, would that we

Make this our humble cheer  

For none can tell when death’s farewell

Will touch those we hold dear

With gentle kindness while we may

Time grants no guarantee

Then we should live each day as if

No other day might be

© Janet Martin