For As Long As The Gift

For as long as the gift of memory you retain The audio and visual memories with you will remain Of life's good and bad days of for you what used to be In this respect you are no different to me The years go by quickly and time does tick on And at the stroke of midnight today will be gone And tomorrow a new day will dawn though not for everyone And a mother will give birth to a baby daughter or son Just live in the now is the best we can do Tomorrow may not dawn for me or for you The one who claims the lives of the very young and the old and those in their lives prime For to claim the life of anyone can come at anytime But for as long as the gift of memory you retain The past you will visit again and again.