Monday, June 20, 2011

Amen... Again

The air I breathe
Son Tyler Thomas and Daughter Samantha Marie
This hour.
This minute.
This second.

I want to hold it
To cherish it
To have it help me
Contain my life

To help me
Contain the gifts
I have not deserved
But accept gratefully

The moment.
The breath.
This breath.
Forever

Amen

But to all good things
An end
Must come
So be it

Amen... again

I can live with that
I guess
But I would rather not

Drafted on Father's Day, 2011

2 comments:

Annie said...

Hi Tom,
Yes, to live and breathe, this moment, cherishing every gift, can be everything. Thank you for the reminder!

TomC said...

Yes thank you for your comment Annie. Certainly, at my age it gets easier to lose focus on the moment. But now its already passed as my fingers are just too slow on these keys and my memory of, whatever it was, just keeps getting shorter and shorter...