Gladder Than we Were...

 Today marks a year for a family near here 

who is gathering together to remember a son and brother,

Gone suddenly, so soon.

Thoughts and prayers continue to be with them, their lives forever altered!

Let's live as if this might be the last day we have to love/have each other!

Lord, make us glad for what we have

Each other; kindly blessed

Before the journey from a grave

Where dust and ashes rest

Before the head bows, sorrow-bent

The heart broken and sad

Before we wish that we had spent

More time just being glad

Before the door twixt here and There

Seals someone from our touch

Lord, make us gladder than we were

For those still here with us

And let our gladness prove its part

By what we do and say

Before we wish with all our heart

For simply ‘one more day’

© Janet Martin