Timewatch
WE never watch the candle that is burningor notice when it is getting low, we aretoo busy watching the flame and baskingin its glow.
Should we not pause and stand awhile,
and glimpse what we should see, the
meadows, spring crocus, snowdrops,
and the majesty of a poplar tree.
Time glides swiftly on we never attend
the pace for there is always tomorrow
we never dream of age, isn't there something we ought to do, some love
we should show, before Life turns another
page?
We could make plans to right some
wrongs, put goodness in its place,
although we can't relight the burnt out
flame, or change Life's speeding face.
Make sure we do what must be done,
not defer it, or let be, and leave it just
to Fate, the ones we love need to know
it this hour, this very day, because
Time never learned to wait.
Catherine Neale