Life Is a Gift

Life is a gift, so take it slow
Think things through and just let go
Day by day you’ll never know
What comes next and what will show.
Life can be lost in perfunctory ways
Minute by minute, day by day,
Take the chance, let life flow,
Unwrap the package and let it glow.

There is a magic with each new day
A spell of chance, to use as we may,
It can be virtuous or thrown away.
Disappearing to our dismay,
Leaving, in its place, only what we made to stay,
Today is tomorrow’s yesterday.