This Goes Away Soon

Use while you have.
Active appreciation process.

We will miss those days in the tent, hidden
behind the trees. Keeping quiet.

Skin will not remain so soft and taught
Bones already creak when we make love.

Spasmodically, muscles tell us they're giving
it their all. Just like us, they truly cannot know

what ‘trying one’s best’ really means. See why
a parent would issue such instruction to child?

I am thirty. A friend wrote a book centered
upon each decade of her life. Is courage simply

behavior of bohemian style? Too old to care for
reupholstering chairs at 95. She used

while she had. Still does. Laughing at logic’s
quackery in serious, level attempts to convince

this guy that the next sixty years would
resemble in time exactly twice current past.

When math is simple, but the sharpest paradox
of them all. Do not rush, just kiss me while I am

here. Sign your bacterial coding into the lining of
my gut. Meld the souls and iron your care as a

patch onto my boyscout sash of memories. To
use is to wear, to be idle is to wither.

No body worries of death because they are not
finished living, but due to lack of knowing.

Born of this life as a mystery, packaged in child
birth. Born into what upon departure?

How could a medium feature no contrast?
The habitat for a soul, unimaginable to all.