FACING THE FUTURE TOGETHER
In the Middle of Now
We know the medium of time
invisible yet felt.
Our lives impacted
by this force that moves
with relentless power.
Like wind it touches all.
Moving in moments,
no visible means of support
it travels over years
knowing that with each moment
nothing is the same as last.
Time is a rocker bar between past and future.
We tender time within the now,
ephemeral yet real.
The past we know, it is our journey
to this day,
forming, flowering, blooming
freely into this space
we call now.
The future, we depend upon it.
Do we not each night
go to rest
thinking into that which is yet to be?
Our lives depend upon the morrow
something in us trusts it to be there.
We yield to the hope
that tomorrow brings,
able to move beyond
that which has been done.
Knowing that it formed this now,
knowing that it can happen again,
knowing
that the dreams of life
form in the now
are enacted in the now
that beckons to the future
calling to be made fresh.
We then become the bridge,
the way ahead,
the hope of tomorrow,
as a result of the newly minted now.
Hoping, aiming, caring
in the way of
that which caused us to be.
That which caused us to be
before the now
into which we were born.
The future, we depend upon it.
The future,
it depends upon us.
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- Sharon Lange