Words We Once Wanted To Say Poem by Mary Murphy

Time can become a loss of what we once wanted to say,
and feelings tend to get buried beneath it all.
But soon we learn to rename all this with “yesterday”
looking at tomorrow as the day we will stand tall.
But what happens when tomorrow become the yesterday we fear.
When time gets so far ahead of us we forget to embrace each day
and there goes another year.
and we still haven’t said those words we once wanted to say.
Even though things like this happen to everyone.
There’s still hope in this moment
For we have before us, time we have not yet begun.
time we have not yet spent.
The past remains…as simply the past
and we learn to move slowly into what lies ahead,
when we will learn to make it last
when those words turn into words we have said.
Now look at that future…where we stand so tall
imagine the magnificence of truly embracing each day.
See how our feelings rise above it all.
and how proud we look upon that “yesterday”.