A poem dedicated to Judy McDowell a Twitter friend and well-known Twitterer. Not quite the poem I intended, Judy, but I hope you’ll accept it with its best intentions.
Every Moment
Every moment is the result all moments before
And each will last forever more
As points on a line of time without end
While sparks of light the stars still send
As this planet revolves to define our day
An infinity of moments has been in play
Celestial bodies pass by day and night
We approach them, then they are lost from sight
They were once seen way beyond our star
In some solar system, light years afar
At a position within this universe
Where no human will ever read this verse
They cannot fall from sky to ground
Nor do they move in circles round
Their noise is there, but beyond our hearing
While we listen here, our last gasp fearing
We are not gods who all things see
We are mere mortals, but of spirits free
There is always another moment in space
While sunlight shines on our lowly race
When one man’s death may be bathed in darkness
Another is born to perceive life’s starkness
We are a world in perpetual foment
Where life begins at every moment