Time of Life

There is a saying:
Your days are numbered.
Time Inexorably finite.
A mystery
Till the very last moment.
“Carpe Diem”
Cried the Poet
And went dancing.

I live up to my name
Whispered the Day Lilly.
Here today,
gone tomorrow.

How many of my nine lives
Have I lived?
Wondered the White Cat.
Never mind,
Now is all there is.