Past and future

Ever wonder how for is the future

From the past?

Then comes the present

The border between the past and future

Some say it is closer to the past

Some, to the future

Some, at no side bent

Reasons differ as the opinions

For on one street going up, down another comes

What sense do we reach; still a discussion

That was the past, which passed

One second ago, by the future replaced

The same that passed to make up the endless past

Lived as the present, fast instant

Every second in front of you is your future

Yet your past

I made plans to the future one may say

Obviously it cannot be fulfilled in the past any way

Acted it on the present, didn’t you?

That reacted chemically irreversible to the past

Pushing the close future, closer

Three everlasting instants

Make up the root of a single tree

Yet the past seems to be longest of the three

Digs in present ceaselessly and memorable

What sense do we reach? The order, never reversible

Past and future, present in between.

11 May 2008