"chase the day..."

before the tide
comes in
again, let's walk
as far as we can...
out to the edge of the
world
and face down
the setting of the sun...

let's chase this day as
it slips to the west and never
let it end.

because,
if,
as we are promised...
"this is the day, that the Lord
hath made..."

I will never let it go.

I will hold each moment in my
heart as if it were
precious and rare....because it is.

There is no day,
no hour, minute, moment
dismissible as
"just another" in a long
series of
randomly unraveling
past, present, and future
cobblestones
in life's journey...
steps you can't
avoid.

This moment,
this very moment
this extraordinary,
magnificent
gift of a moment
will never be
repeated,
cannot be recaptured,
must be celebrated
for the
miracle it is.

So please
right now,
before the tide comes in
and the moon rises,
and the sun sinks unseen
below the horizon in
the west and
the world
once again
becomes
new....

hold me
and between us
we will
capture a moment
and call it
ours....

if just for
a moment,
a sliver
of
grace...