The present

This poem has eight lines with eight syllables each.

 

Thank you All for everything.

For the present day is now clear.

I thank you for the present month

and also for the present year.

Thank you for the present moment

and thank you for the present time.

Thank you for my present talent

and thank you for this present rhyme.

 

 

M.J.S.

Author's Note

an eight side-ways is the sign for eternity.

Reviews

[ELii]

Beautifully written. All we have is the present.

[Nicholas Hallows]

... after all the past may always live with us but the present is all we really have. NH