Ah, the Tenses

Strange, how often we think on the past
For it's the one thing we cannot change
Yet humans just cannot grasp that truth
And even I have tried to rearrange
Try and try, though try we might-
The past is forever locked in the past
The future is only what matters now
For the future- the future will last
It's funny, though...
How we live in the present
When the present is so short a time
The future is endless and endless
And past is only good for a rhyme
Copyright © | Year Posted 2011

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Brown Avatar
November 17, 2011 at 6:26 AM
Congratulations on your win in Moses' "Give Me Your Best Shot" contest J. Love, Carol
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November 15, 2011 at 12:03 PM
Congratulations on your win with this wonderful write! Lori
Mehta Avatar
November 14, 2011 at 6:28 AM
Congratulations on the win in the contest of John Freeman, J.Dover
Johnson Avatar
November 13, 2011 at 8:23 PM
Really cute poem. Love, Joyce
Freeman Avatar
November 13, 2011 at 6:25 PM
Oh yes those past tenses try us a lot, Dover. If we could turn them loose and live the present. "And past is only good for a rhyme" great finish. Congratulations on a win, Agape, Moses
Tate Avatar
October 11, 2011 at 12:07 PM
You artistically put a new twist on present, past, future. I love the way you cause us to reach out perspectively to view these. And you remind us that the future lasts eternally, for which we do well in preparing properly for it. Bless you.
Sherman Avatar
October 11, 2011 at 11:55 AM
I really like this...especially the last line..
Jones Avatar
October 11, 2011 at 12:21 AM
both unknown and unknowable... just different shades of a brighter pale. nice write, thanks~N
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