Preservation

How do you take the softness

Of the day

And keep its memory safe?

How do you preserve the little

Snake that was found dead in the road?

How can the memory of love be

Kept Alive?

Perhaps for the first you might

Make a blanket of leaves to keep

The second, take it and bury it with

Dignity, add flowers .

The third will permeate all of your days,

You know this.

Make a favourite dish and name it thus,

So you may sup on that love.

This life is filled with days

That you would want to keep

In a jar so that you may peek

At for its joy

But nothing will ever be as it is

Right now…

So be fresh each moment

Relish, eat, taste, roll in each

Breath taken

Cake eaten

Kisses that make you reel.

Be present each moment

Do not label it Good or Bad

Life simply IS