TIME

TIME

(Written by: M. E. Robare)

I can’t remember yesterday

As more than a fading dream

I hear the future cry away

In a quickly silenced dream

I can’t recall the night before

Caught in the tick of time

I wonder what my life is for

With no reason and no rhyme

I had to go, I could not stay

Because time keeps gliding on

I could not regain yesterday

But a new one starts with dawn

I would not make the same mistakes

I’d start out fresh tomorrow

Time never heard my poor heart break

As each joy turned to sorrow

I awaited the future with each sunrise

And wondered where it was

The march of time is the grandest of lies

For move it never does

The future is the time we’re in

And we’re living in the past

Now is where we've always been

And it will never last

The moment now can never stay

It becomes a time gone by

Each second sees another day

And I can’t remember why

I should have finished what I could

So much I've left undone

Now yesterday is gone for good

And tomorrow never comes

I find this poem profoundly sad and inspiring at the same time.  It makes me think of death and dying but it inspires me to make the most I have with the time I have... it inspires me not to sit on my haunches and wait for life to happen... to move forward, take chance, make a change... and that's what I'm doing.  I finally made my decision.  At the end of the school year I am moving back to Swan... I will hate leaving my job but I've come to the conclusion that I can and have lived with a bad job... right now I need my family and I need to face my past and see if my future belongs there.... Now is the TIME to find out.