we spend our lives with eyes on the clock
always waiting while uninsured minutes
slip through the gaps between our fingers
like sand but listen, children!
take your opportunities now to live
to sing to write to fall in love to do everything
before the weight of the world
falls down on you, listen! the future lays
before you like a flowering valley
and you are at a clifftop overlooking it, just
open your eyes and see it spreading beneath you!
let the sunlight warm your face and run out into the world
with open arms, listen!
the present was once the future,
and the future is never the present
stop waiting for a tomorrow
that may never come to pass!
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Poetrywe are the broken//we are the corrupt//we are the shallow #54 poetry (2/23)
