Marking Up the Calendar
All human relationships - including friendships - have their ups and down. If they matter
to us, we must work at them. Should they flag and all but fail, we must do our
best to revive them. Nor can we let foolish pride get in the way.
If
we want to build bridges with someone badly enough, what does it matter who
makes the first move?
Sadly,
sometimes we have to face the fact that a relationship was never as worthwhile
as we thought in the first place.
Let’s be
honest though. It is too easy to find excuses for doing nothing. Doing something, on the other hand and…well, who
knows?
MARKING UP THE CALENDAR
One
day to remember,
one day
to forget;
one
day together - another,
cruelly torn
apart
One
day for friendship,
one day
for rage;
one
day for love - another,
blotting
its page
One
day to be, oh, so sure,
one day to
doubt;
one
day so in love, - another
in a
rush to get out
One
day, love and peace,
promising
to endure;
one
day it’s spring - another
already mid-winter
One
day, life’s lessons
to learn
and share,
we
students of life - another
finding
us still there
Copyright R. N. Taber, 2007; 2013
[Note:
An earlier version of this poem - under the title 'One Day' - first appeared in Awakening of the Soul, Poetry Now (Forward Press) 2003 & subsequently in Accomplices to Illusion by R. N. Taber,
Assembly Books, 2007.]
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