Till kingdom come
If or when or perhaps
we have every right
to savour our uncertainties
for there is no ultimate code
to define our being
there is no definitive shape
to our lives
we live in the making
of the moment
in the seizing of the day
in the giving of all
the love we have within us
and so we try and fail
and try again
to find our step
to find our way
to become the fullness
of our own being
Oak and daffodil
orchid and elm
have no such freedom
to recast themselves
in a different mould
each of us a species
unto our own
living and loving
in trial and error
so that the fittest
of our selves survives
till kingdom come
John Lyons