One day

I won’t be able to come visit you

Some day I won’t be able 

to reach out and call you

ask if you want to go for a walk

and talk along the way

at some point we will

have shared our last meal 

and not known it at the time

I’ll be even sadder then

than I am now

in anticipation 

anything but eager

so as downcast as I am now

in my feels for all of my thoughts 

I push that day away

elongating time in appreciation 

for the fact that I can still call

I can still write

I can still laugh with you

about the silly and simple things

The grand gestures may garner the photos

and those are worth safe keeping

but the daily rituals make a life together

and those don’t need to be kept safe

as they can never be taken away 

this life will take my breath away

but our life together 

will give it back

this life will bring me to tears

but all we have shared

will carry me home

This life will take everything

and everyone it can

until it takes me too

but we’ve been right here all along

just waiting to be noticed

hoping to be seen

longing to be detected

wanting to be heard

needing to be felt

praying to be loved

That’s why one day can wait

and day one is right now

wherever you are

pick it up

hold it with both hands

appreciate what you already have

hold it loosely

for others to see as well

and it can never be taken from you

It is you

It is us

It is all of ours