The Here and Now

THE HERE AND NOW Just go find the key to the present And the future becomes unlocked For some, it is just the distant past As if who they were then, will last Seen all doors and never knocked Nostalgia makes it all so pleasant Dwelling back there in one’s youth Better days, at least as one recalls Stay back there in your memories Ignore those who now are enemies But the prospect of the future palls As now one is so long in the tooth Who said, Age shall not weary them I hear that intoned more and more Funerals don’t really say goodbye I’ll be looking down from the sky Seeing confusion always as before None there to ever wear a diadem