Always Simply This

Today marks the end of an 'era' as this will be an all-scholar family in September

 (no more need for regular daycare)

so of course there are heart-tugs tonight!

'This pretty much sums it up' I thought this morning

as I watched the bubbles shimmer and pop!

Moment, ah, moment, you weave in your wake

Echoes, ah, echoes of time’s give and take

Turning the commonplace colors and care

Into a masterpiece etched on the air

Where have-and-hold folds into had-and-held

As gray and gold mold mist-oceans that meld

Faces and places and laughter and tears

Painting dawn’s graces/chases into yester-years

Where hearts are hubs of hard hugs and soft sighs

Torn twixt the tug of hellos and good-byes

Teaching, ah teaching us to taste what Is

Reaching, ah reaching cannot restore This

Which soon will drift to Past’s ethereal shore

Washed by the whispers of what is no more

Where for a moment we danced on sand-bars

Tangled at twilight in ribbons and stars

...catch a round rainbow and watch it go pop

Time tunes a tango no minstrel can stop

Tick-tock by tick-tock, today soon will be

Tomorrow’s beautiful memory

See how a river of ripples runs wild

Gushing through gardens where I was a child 

Taking the fellow and leaving a man

Time's trickster calling 'catch me if you can'

Dangling from rafters of seasons that fall 

Making trapeze artists of us all 

Touching and yearning, now high and now low

Loving and learning, now hold, now let go

Leaving us breathless by your easy kiss

Moment, ah moment, always Simply This

© Janet Martin