Until Then...

 A few 'Until then' moments of my week as Grandma and Child caregiver...

Until the curtain falls

On all the plans we made

As One greater than duty calls

And dust to dust is laid

Until we reach the place

Where you and I must part

And what was once love’s face-to-face

Must remain heart-to-heart

Until both good and ill

No longer cheer or test

Replies of fury or goodwill

Of motives cursed or blessed

Until our longings fade

Like daylight into dark

And life follows the airborne grade

As surely as a spark

Until no brook-or-lane

No school-girls dream-and-play

No let-the-boy-not-wish-in-vain

For love to come his way

Until there is no ‘yet’

No spring-tide of new birth

No autumn colored pirouette

Of leaf wafting to earth

Until then, let’s just love

Before time’s toll is stilled

And we fold like an empty glove

Of numbered days fulfilled

© Janet Martin