This Is What We Have Poem by James Casey

This Is What We Have

The best we have in life is a story and a song
Chips n beer a bit of love and longing to be-long

That is what we have

The best we have in life are the folks along the way
Led by hunches, lured with hope first excited then afraid

That is what we have

The best we have in life are pictures, pictures in our mind
With a signal and glimpse or a memory sometimes blind

That is what we have

The best we have in life are the lives of men we've known
Held together in a common bond - with ones who now are gone

That is what we have

Jim 1978