How things have changed—
across the years, through the tears
and the smiles of joy that sparkle
and then die, and into the heart
of together there is decay and
goodbyes that defy these wishes
that we had for a happy life;
but still we live “day to day” with
what we have and what is not
within the reach of this limited life,
so full of freedom, so rife with pain,
but no one is to blame for all that
comes our way, for it is the order
of the world turning with desire
one sunny day and still with loss in
another bleak winter of despair.
16/5/2020