Here/Now

what is here

is of now

and shall be 

no more

what came was

right for its time

and shall not return

nothing shall return

save memory to 

catch fleeting moments

in fantasy

what you hold

is held by you

in its time 

what is said 

flies into the

cyclical current of

shifting winds

what begins in

innocence ends in

ignorance and delusion

the world belongs

to those who know

the vagaries of

time and chance

the world is denied 

those who wait

for their moment

night belongs to

those who know the

continuity of silence 

in tranquility and peace

                          David Sermersheim