Permanent Temporary

Temporal is aiming for permanence But much benevolence paints the prudence To keep change changing To keep range ranging To give meaning to purpose and hope To create a future into which to elope From an old past on stone cast Onwards fast to a great that will last Even that which may last forever In light of memory that may favour whatever Will suffer oblivion And the wavering of opinion Until it is craved for and recalled Once again hailed and installed Only to be trampled underfoot again And such be the recurring strain So affirms the permanence of temporaries Times and heirs being the emissaries Passing down through the years All cheers and jeers across seers and peers And so it is now as it was then Such temptations common to men Throughout time and space Even as enduring wisdom is strained of grace K. Muitherero