We Are Here Now Poem by Paul Reed

We are here now
And can forget all our troubles in an instant
If we could just throw them away
Into another day;
This frail path we walk along
Where each moment can be a lifetime
Or gone before we can even see it,
Where love and life pass so swiftly by
In the blink of an eye;
But we are still here
We have gone from young to old
The advancing years beckoned
And in a fraction of a second
Swept us through;
Pointless to measure
Rather just treasure
What we have now.