Why anguish over days past
or worry over those to come?
When we pigeonhole bits of time

with such words and concepts
we bedeck them with feelings
of despair or of anxiety, quailing
at presumed or anticipated failure
but when we see the continuum,
the inclusiveness, the foreverness
of the flow of nows we accept
that part in which we can partake
at this moment, leaving the emotions
of the waves of minutes we’ve seen
pass by and the surge of those to come
to their own encounter and dwell
in that part of forever…we breathe
right now.