Uncertainty

It's 6:00 AM Suzy, no need to get up.
I have grown older and you are no pup.
What is your hurry?Why not lie abed?
We've no pressing duties
in this long day ahead.

Oh well, if I must I will open the door.
You seem so eager to go and explore.
You want to know who has invaded your space,
as with nose down, you're running
all over the place.

The mouse who stole food from your dish has been caught,
because he did something that he hadn't ought.
I only half-heartedly baited the trap.
I thought him a brave and quite
cheeky young chap.

I accept as God's gift this new day that's begun
and look for some urgent, small tasks to be done.
With our breakfasts over and dishes washed too,
you're napping already
with nothing to do.

While I, as a human, am not made that way.
Though arising too early, awake I must stay.
For I know that summer is not here to last.
I must use or lose it,
time's moving too fast.

You think you're immortal, I know that I'm not.
This life I am living is all that I've got.
My life has been happy, I'd live it again,
but joys of today are
all filtered throuh pain.

I envy your living in only the now.
I'd like to do that, if I only knew how.
The lot of the human is living with fear
that as soon as tomorrow
she may not be here.

By: Joyce 7/12/08