It Cannot Be Known

It was before if I ever knew Yet a past I've never known A future always promises new An exchange for a tomorrow to own They say you cannot change the past I say... what did I know to change the future? Because it hasn't happen for one to ask Only a beginning we can ever learn to nurture How do one begin tomorrow for the end of yesterday? Is there enough time to remember a lifetime? Where life for every person silently falls away Perhaps a lifetime is only measurable in hours to find As we fall in place and form our core We become harder to change how we've become To be the strongest when stubborn and to easily ignore That there are no rules to begin with to change for what we want Have I yet lived in a past I own? Because from it I plan for my every morrow anew The future for the past forever unknown Was it before if I ever only knew...