by Geoffrey Schmitt

Created on: January 17, 2011

The past is ancient history

Even events including me

Although we may remember when

Fondly recall or shake within

We can’t return and live once more

As kids or teens when we’ve three score

Today is all we ever get

So love and live without regret

Into the future we can’t see

Our guesses mostly wrong will be

Would you have thought that man could fly

Beyond the earth, beyond the sky

And those predicting doom have missed

Thank God they’re wrong and we are blessed

To live again yet one more day

No matter what their placards say

So let us celebrate each breath

The present now before our death

With hist’ry past mere memory

And future yet before us be

Let’s make some tales to tell anon

When we will sit and think upon

The presence that we once did share

And those still waiting if we dare.

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