Tomorrow ....

My first two issues of the Post turned into a real schlimazel. That came about mainly because of not being very familiar yet with this blogger program and my seeming inability to click the right buttons at the right time. To complicate things further I tried to make some email changes on my ISP server and apparently shut down my Outlook Express email program for several days from July 5 last weekend. I hope I have resolved those problems and have asked blogger to take me off their disallowed list. Accordingly, in this issue I am taking the precaution of composing the content directly into the posting page and will avoid adding pictures or other material until I master the method.

For this issue I am publishing a few lines that evolved in the early morning sleepless hours after I had a chat with my sister who is celebrating her 86th birthday next week. In fact I added the lines to a birthday card for her and she may find them either sad or negative. But they were not intended in that way. They are simply a realization of one of the frailties of my own particular journey through various occasions and relationships through life till this time, and I feel sure I am not alone in the sentiment expressed, and I don't think of them as being sad or down putting. I headed the lines with the title of this issue, and they came out as follows:

As we thrust forth
from womb to world,
loved and fed
and cleaned and clothed,
are we happy then?
We know it not--
tomorrow we will know.
The joys of childhood
were there forever.
In centre stage
we took it all for free.
The joys were there;
we knew them not.
Just wait until tomorrow.
And in our youth
long days of peace
and beauty, that joy
escaped unrecognized--
we could not wait to get away,
to really live tomorrow,
and so it went for all the many morrows.
Now we live well and peacefully
in rapid aging years.
We're left alone,
left to atone
those long lost years
of tomorrow and tomorrow
when tomorrow calls us there.

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