'So we decided to sit up ... '

For today's prompt, I want you to take the phrase "So we decided to (blank)" and fill in the blank. Make that your title and write a poem. Some possibilities include "So we decided to plant a tree" or "So we decided to burn a hole in the sky."

So we decided to sit up and take notice of life
Snatch the tail end of vanishing dreams
Get rid of past’s stories…endless reams

Contemplate ‘the reach’ beyond our ‘grasp’
Work towards it here and now
For you know
how the vagrant heart can dart
in moment’s of present distress
and saunter in stretches of dewy grass
(all illusory)
of a fake dressed up past

So we decided to fix our gaze on the present,
lest we pin all our hopes on a future pleasant
and doze in the hammock of a moon crescent

And then cry, ‘Treason, Treason.’
When things fall apart for no reason?

So we decided to sit up and take notice of life
Bury the regrets of a defunct past
For this moment may vanish fast.