Dream for Tomorrow (A Verse)...

      Dream for Tomorrow

Someone laughed out loud today      

   hardy, robust, of genuine joy…

      it left me wondering when last I had heard my own verbal melody…

I noticed also today, children's trills and squeals of play

   can both warm and melt a heavy heart…

As do lovers walking hand in hand

   sharing a silent message of love, in their embracing gaze

I turn away to face the setting sun

   as the 'what if's and if onlys' are too much for me…

The cool night air whispers past

   as the soft green grass gently tickles my shoeless feet

A tree nearby rustles,

   sending golden leaves to rest among the beckoning flowers

      completing this work of art...

Each day now

   I see and hear objects and ideas I was blind & deaf to once before

      once when I believed I had my whole life ahead of me…

Now, since a day I will never forget

   my calendar for living is numbered with uncertainty

Worse than any physical pain

   is the haunting question, 'what could of been'?

At times I weep until it seems as though

    my tears contain my very soul…

For now

   I will live each day to its fullest

      cherish every moment, every breath, every memory

And dream… for tomorrow…

Debbie J.