Words for an occasion
This is not a world
in which all things fade
most things don’t
most things remain
or return from time to time
feelings for example
love for example
beauty for example
all that endures
in time and space
the abiding coordinates
which hold our existence
in place and bind us to our doing
the free mind
that roams through
fields of thought
that sails the seven seas
of the imagination
rooted in the significances
we create around us
fleeting flowers are there
to remind us to keep our nerve
to trust in certain durabilities
and rich pluralities
to be endlessly inventive
within our time
and within our space
and to love naturally
for all we are worth
regardless
John Lyons