Is tomorrow another beginning Or the end of the beginning When does the perfect ending come If it does arrive, what prescribes the reason To precedent can we hold it to be worrisome For us, tomorrow is just an anomaly A wordless remark on the fruit of today If it does have some patterned conscience, how do we stop hurting Like birds without flight or wings Grasping the sky, without purpose Always singing the caged bird's song Forever, even when tomorrow comes Bolted doors will be removed and empty as windows Opening of loading docks for homeless ships To return, without knowing they ever left Abandoning the captain of this vessel Who believes in patience And living in the present