A MOMENT DOESN'T SEEM TO MUCH TO ASK

A moment doesn't seem too much to ask

To feel your sweet embrace

To touch your face

To smile a smile that would not be a mask

I am often lost in longing for a place

Where I fight the finality of time

Its presence and its ever sweeping pace

I am caught in constant combat

With sublime reminders

That these years must cease to play

Like actors on the stage of pantomime

But moments are the building blocks of day

And moments are the time we give each task

In moments you and I will pass away

As life too soon must empty out its flask

A moment doesn't seem too much to ask