Thoughts On A Birthday

Our children are the best of us
as theirs one day will be too
their task is to surpass us
ours to love them when they do

Like sparks, adrift in a darkling sky
we blaze, and burn, then glow
a flame of life and love eternal
to touch, to feel, to know

The thief of time beguiles us
with then, and now, and soon
shared life and love slip by
'til a finite midnight usurps an endless noon

But we can steal back precious moments
for passion is not bound by measured time
shared fragments of love eternal
a sense of life transcendent and sublime

These priceless, timeless moments of eternity
like the river's rush, the oceans' tides
although ever-flowing, ever-changing
are proof undoubting that love, abides

Our children are the best of us
our love impels their dreams not ours
with truth and honour, like us, as their guide
their lives will not be measured in mere years, or months, or hours