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Friday 12 April 2024

River Time


No sorries. No worries
Just joeys. Just Chloe's
It’s okay. It’s today
Tomorrow’s past will never last

Flowers fade. Their seeds remain
Despite tomorrow, our further sorrow
Time's cost is always lost
Our present gain involves our pain

Each moment now will seed somehow
What is to be. We can't foresee
We do not know. And yet we sow
Our thoughts, our cares. Our deeds, our prayers

What has passed, however vast
Each hapless sting, each happy swing
We did not steer, it led us here
Tomorrow's past is flowing fast

This river time, it doesn't climb
A single course, a primordial source
The end will be an empty sea
Chaos will cease, replaced with peace

We know not when. Nor how it will end
We know not where. Nor should we care
We know a lot. Who, why, what
It's everything past. The entire cast

It's yesterday's future. It's today's minutiae
It's tomorrow's past, which will have passed