Poetry – That’s Life! – a poem about using each moment because it is precious.

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That’s Life

I was writing a book when the email arrived. One of my good friends from long ago had suffered a stroke.

He was recovering. He talked of having to relearn skills – like walking and playing the guitar.

He was an amazing guitar player. When I last saw him he played a few numbers for us. It was beautiful. I told him he should have been on stage. He replied that he gets too nervous to be a performer.

It brought reality home to me.

My mind drifted – there are so many people who are no longer here.

Life goes on and everything is the same, each new day you open your eyes and the sun rises. But one day will be different. The sun will not rise. The pain, the letter, the feeling will arrive that will alter your world. One day it will not be the same.

That is sad.

But that is also a lesson.

We should make the most of every day. We should savour it and maximise each moment. We are adrift in the midst of wonder. Wonder cannot last forever. To make each moment full and perfect is all that we can do. There is not a moment to be wasted.

Pete is relearning the guitar.

I hope to hear his genius decorate my world again in the future. I’m sure it will.

That’s Life

 

An instant.

All change.

Life!

Going along so ordinary –

One moment,

That’s all,

Gone

Unexpectedly.

Never saw it coming.

Blindsided

By mundanity.

Proceeding so steadily –

Then

A brick wall

And gone.

It happens

So often

So predictably.

That’s life!

 

Opher 13.12.2015

6 thoughts on “Poetry – That’s Life! – a poem about using each moment because it is precious.”

  1. It can happen in an instant your world is turned upside down. I had a routine appt with my Dr back in May just before my Birthday on the 14 just because I had lost a lot of weight she told me I had stomach cancer, I heard no more I was just gone, I left her room and the tears started and I could not stop them, I only had to walk down the road and I was home, Boys said straight away I did not have it, I felt fine elated I had lost weight because of my back took pressure off – week later appt came through to see Consultant – I knew I was fine but still the word cancer was implanted in my head and I was starting to make arrangements in my head for the end. Saw the consultant who told me after lengthy interview he wanted tube down my throat and in my bottom, I said NO, he agreed he did not believe I had cancer but “we will look anyway” I refused this performance. I know I am fine but your life can change as quick as that.

  2. I certainly have had a sense of this with what’s happened with my brother-in-law (cancer) and a good friend of ours (who is quite a bit younger — stroke). We get so busy we forget to live, don’t we? And I agree with what you said about making each moment full and perfect. I think I would have chosen a different word than perfect, though, for the simple reasons that life seldom lives up to the hype. If we are to be happy and enjoy those moments we must be prepared for “variations on a theme” I think. 😀

    Btw, I noted one of your posts on the Commenting Bootcamp boards this morning. The one about unregistered schools. So if you see some folks turn up you don’t know, they may have come from there. The assignment for today was looking for comments where people had disagreed agreeably. Mine was kind of like that on there, so I used it for my assignment today. Hope you don’t mind. At the very least it might send some more folks around to your site. 🙂

    1. Life is tenuous isn’t it Cheryl. We have to live and make the most of it.
      What is the Commenting Bootcamp? Sounds interesting. By all means borrow and use. That’s fine. The bigger the audience the better. You’re welcome.

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