Life’s Past

Life is hard, everyone knows this.

But it is the passing of life that makes it so.

There is beauty

There is love

There is the moment when you look up at the stars with your arms wrapped round her waist

There is the moment when you crash across the finish line, your throat gasping, your mind triumphant

There is the moment when you hug them goodbye as they go off to a new place where you're not

These moments are life

And life is hard because it never stays still

Its a train that keeps on rolling over hills and mountains, passing sublime scenery but never letting you stop, not even for a moment - at any one moment in life

And that is the hard thing

If only life would hold its breath,

let us stay

here

in this moment

a little

bit

longer

.