Poem #1: ONE

ONE

To live each day as it comes.
To live each day as it runs.
We are peddlers in the sand.
We are peddlers in no land.

There is forever no end.
And in it we never win.
In each day our life we pay.
Each day we find a new way.

Life to each is not the same.
As life to each is to tame.
What seems the end of a kind.
Would begin a brand new find.

There is just one life to live.
And that is your life you give.
Each has to find his own head.
Each has to lay his own bed.

When the precious life has gone.
They remember what was wrong.
But it is only a short song.
It last only just so long.

Then with precious life's new pace.
They do forget life's old face.
It's to live as we know how.
It is us to live for now.

Just one we have to answer.
We make our own cancer.
We worry how others feel.
It is loneliness we seal.

As children will come and go.
Their children know the same foe.
Each for themselves must have care.
For each must pay his own fare.

We must run and maybe hum.
Only for one we must come.
Wisdom and knowledge we choose.
The world for our life we use.

Sonny E.