ONE MORE DAY

One more day

One more day

What is it worth?

What would you pay

For one more day?

A penny?

A hay-Penney or two?

You can’t buy That Day

When you want That Day

You bought that day

Days and months and years ago.

You bought That Day

In your scroungy barefoot youth

You paid or not for That Day

In your strong and virile habits of mid-life

Older, you spent some coins

Couching it, lounging about inactive

You spent more coins on sedentary ways

Days not healthy off your feet

Watching your body vegetate

Now it’s late,

Later still

You want, and want you will

To Buy That One More Day

The time is past for purchasing longitivity

You spent your coins in earlier times

Count your days

If you lived a good life

Taking care of your God given body

It’s not to late

You may just cash in on a few more days

Perhaps a month or a few more years

Live longer in anticipation

That, that One More Day

Was paid for -

Yesterday

tom tenbrunsel

Carl Sandburg Writer for 2023