AN ONLY AND ALWAYS NOW

The future
could hardly be

imagined
it lay

an hour away
which for a child

was a small
infinity.

Time had
no divisions.

The clock didn't tell it
what to do.

The world was only
and always now.

The moment made
of sunlight and that was all

that was needed
to be known..

It was summer holiday
land

and Time so to speak
stretched endlessly away

world
without end

ahhh men
running up the hill

all rifles
and shouting

trying to be soldiers
boys pretending to be men.

Oh look - a dog!

His mother's voice
lassoing him with her voice.

"Stay there!"
he commanded the world.

"I have to go in for bit but
...I'll be back!"

The soldiers shrunk now
to a dot in the distance.

The world  become
the dog's bark.