Life is Short

“Life is short, though I keep this from my children/”

Please don’t.
Share that this life is precious and fleeting.
Enjoy each moment.
Worry less.
Risk more.
Try.

“Life is short, though I keep this from my children.”

Please don’t.
Share with me that tomorrow is unknown.
Today, right now, is all that you and I have.

“Life is short, though I keep this from my children.”

Please do.
I want to feel and think this will last forever.
Or at least a very, very long time.
Ice cream, hugs, riding my bike
for infinite days

“Life is short, though I keep this from my children.”

Please do.
I wish to play forever
Maybe you will join?

“Life is short, though I keep this from my children.”

Deirdre McCarthy is a third grade teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts.