I drag it behind me, Push it out in front, But it seems I’m always Never near enough. The past plagues my present, I worry the future now, All the while forgetting The way; the why; the how To toe the line between The “then” and the “will be” – To simply walk on the brink Of the joined eternities.
Conceived after reading Henry David Thoreau: “In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too: to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.”