You Have A Moment To Recall

You Have A Moment To Recall

You have a moment to recall

If you would only bother to

Take it and then instead of all

Remember how it is in view.

I had one once, returned to me

As I had need of one to find

And it lay straight ahead to see

If I had to bring it to mind.

It happened on a summer day

In fact, so many years ago,

Amid the woods along the way

Of an outing we’d often go;

The clearing which awaited us

As I was looking forward to

Without a doubt of what it was

Had greenery of every hue.

My parents and my sister took

A path upon an errand bent,

My father called a nature walk

As, altogether, we four went.

From when I was a little boy

It remains, momentarily,

And represents an early joy

Embedded in my memory.

If troubled by a circumstance

Which I’m unable to avoid

In its direction when I glance

I notice that it’s unalloyed

Just like that lovely open spot

Yet unseen but expected that

Gives me the very feeling what

Lies up ahead I’m looking at.