Say, Don’t Say
By Paul John Roach
Don’t say
We wasted a minute,
We were thoughtless or
Profligate with time,
We could have done better,
We let it slip away.
Say
We were here,
Even when we apparently weren’t,
It was still going on,
It was ours.
The celebration
Is in the ordinary moments
And the occasional
Extraordinary times.
And all is well.