Today

This date this time
a month ago, a paper signed
a legal bind
a joining
three turns around the sun ago
I met
I knew
I loved
I dreamed
Less than forever it seemed
turn it back my age
and five
men made their way
	(knelt to pray)
in no earlier footprints
today
my mother's grandmother
ninety-two turns of the sun
would have scowled on
were she alive
bitter rage
weak heart
What would she say
of him I married
of that other
of them that walked
I would take her hand
walk her through her innocence
What I never told her
	(remember the wedding of a friend
	punctuated by a cousin's early death)
What I never told him
	(remember the summer sun, curtains drawn,
	hiding the wyvern on the wing)
What I would have said
had I known:
Today is the only day
Today is always the only day

7/20/00