As Long As Life Remains

PAD Challenge day 3: For today's prompt, take the phrase "As (blank)," 

replace the blank with a new word phrase, 

make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem.

(Playing with these prompts as time allows!)

Oh there's another title for this prompts haha! '

As Time Allows

Young at Heart Frank Sinatra

As long as life is granted, pray

That I/we may learn the art

(Though nothing keeps the years at bay)

Of staying young at heart

Then though the seasons take their toll

Beneath their staid finesse

May I/we retain in heart and soul

A youthful loveliness

Where as the winds of change persist

To weather wizened limb

Beneath the tresses, silver-kissed

May Youth’s sparkle yet brim

Like a gnarled tree laden with fruits

Of pure and humble truth

May Beauty’s finest attributes

Inspire green of youth

Each season is a work of art

Like links in daisy-chains

To keep us ever young at heart

As long as life remains

© Janet Martin