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Premium Member A Past-Tense Message

Don't worry now about past tense,
It's gone, passe'~ no longer hence.
Forget all those words left unsaid,
moments still waiting, books unread.
The future will come, enticed or not
Enjoy the days time has brought.

Past Tense

I could make excuses
Or claim I was possessed
But fact would find its way out
Of duplicity confessed

So I will speak those truths
Clandestine in my past
Although far from my first mistakes
I vow each one the last

I have worshiped money
My words have been profane
I have ignored the Sabbath
And caused my parents pain

I’ve smashed some helpless insects
Thought things much less than pure
I’ve pilfered things that were not mine
Because I wanted more

I’ve lied for no good reason
Desired someone’s spouse
I've longed for their possessions
And coveted their house

My excuse has been I’m human
An average bipedal fool
The Lord made only ten mandates
I’ve fractured every rule

Yet God is ever merciful
So I strive every day
To keep all Ten Commandments
Past tense is past… I pray

Which Verse Is Past Tense Which Verse Is Present

WITH EVERY YESTERDAY
IS A TIME GONE BY
THOSE DAYS AHEAD MIGHT
BE BETTER IF
THEN IN THESE IFINISM WE DO THE SAME
TO BE CATCH IN THE
CHANGE BARRANCE OF SAME
YET WHICH DAYS MIGHT WE CREATE A CHANGE
TO LEARN FROM THOSE DAYS GONE BY
HALF A DAY SPENT
BEING FOOLISH
IS A HALF A DAY
SOMEONE ASKEST WHY
WHEN THE WHEELS START
AND THE GRAIN IS THRASHED
AND THE PROCESS TO MAKE FLOUR BEGANS
WE REMOVE THE HUSK 
AND BLEACH GROUNDED GRAINS
TO MAKE TWO PRODUCTS NEARLY THE SAME


Premium Member Past Tense

we starved.

we danced.

Past Tense

The only difference 
between you and me is...
You thought of me sometimes
While I...

I think of you always

Past Tense Chums

I don’t understand the past tense.
Why is it that fight is fought?
And catch is caught when liked for like is right.
And what about sighted is that a past tense of sight?

The list is endless, and I spent hours amazed by all of it.
It was worse than a stinky sweaty work-out so I sweated!
Notice the t is pronounced so it’s Ted not “Ed” at the end of it.
But Ted and Ed sometimes have a rest when “En,” “O” and “A” led.

Yes, they led well, so that steal is not stealed but stolen or stole,
Then the A appeared when run is ran not runned.
The O was the big boy with write when he trumped wrote over writed.
I’m tired of this mess, so I’ll just let my ESL teacher do the word roll.


Past Tense

Past Tense

The pain and this grief is held close
	to my chest is, all that is left is
		becomes past tense.

Memory now vanishing, this work
	of remembering is love
		without vibrancy, vitality or motion.

No aroma of the moment is more
	smelling than thinking is.
		All that is left is

Clenching a shadow not
	caressing her flesh, is
		all that is left is;

Another kind of slow death is
	disappearing until love is
		just another word again.

Premium Member Past Tense

Perfect day, anyway
Nothing left to say
Holding on to
Don't you ever fade
Never go away

Past tense, enraptured
Everything is captured
In my mind, going over
How this can really be
What we have shattered

One by one, against me
It's all adding up now
We didn't count to you
Now it is best of luck
Like some random other

Here waiting on you
Through any season
I'm not stuck here
Never held hostage
Deep in your heart

You couldn't get enough
Needed me to feel alive
But never in that sense
When I am needing of us
Wanting the heat inside

In some ways
There will be days
When we wake
Everything seeming
Out of place

But it seems
I'm only here in my dream
When I sleep
It's the same it has been
Start to end

Past Tense

Scent upon a breeze
Blows so softly past my cheek
Memories invade

Past Tense

There's never a quiet moment in this orphanage of lost thoughts.
Every night I meander into group therapy alone.
I wonder which lost soul I'll save tonight,
And by the way, who am I?

AM/FM contraband,
Broadcast to the city of the already damned.
Broken bottles shipwrecked again,
Driftwood diaries left to repent.

I never knew what I thought you knew.
Barren, vast, and devoid,
Careful in my reckless endangerment.
Rose colored gas mask of years of "sucking it up."
Prepared for nothing much,
But hoping for the impossible.

What do I do now?
When Once Upon A Time begat The End.

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