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pegasus111
Member Elite

since 2000-07-27

Posts 2219
ocala, fl, usa

0 posted 2001-07-15 02:01 PM

What useful purpose can be found,
in serving the master of the past?
Is life so drab and dull today,
that we must seek yesterday?

Yesterday served those now gone.
Should we relive their hate,
making it our burden today?
Do we not have sufficient cause
to fear the plate now offered?

Those among you that desire
the heavy cross of yesterday,
and cling to it as a treasure,
will surely miss the beauty of today.

Caste aside these useless concerns,
for though you strive mightly,
and beat the memory drum slowly,
not one iota of the past will change.

As you now live, the past is dead.
Bury it for all time in your mind.
Build instead a better world today.
For today is fleeting and impatient
to become decaying yesterday.

the woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and many miles to go before I sleep...Frost

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2001-07-15 04:59 PM

You are so right. Yesterday is gone tomorrow may not come. We only have today. Joyce

Trillium

Member Patricius

since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

2 posted 2001-07-15 05:54 PM

This is a good reminder that we should make each day count for all it can!

Betty Lou Hebert

brian madden
Member Elite

since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

3 posted 2001-07-16 06:26 PM

As you now live, the past is dead.
Bury it for all time in your mind.
Build instead a better world today.
For today is fleeting and impatient
to become decaying yesterday.

There is no past, no future only the present.
A reminder we all need for time to time, well written. Enjoyed this alot.

Moon Dust

Member Elite

since 1999-06-11

Posts 2177
Skelmersdale, UK

4 posted 2001-07-17 09:38 PM

Right on

You don't have a choice to die but you do have a choice how you meet it.

Inanothertime
Member

since 2001-06-29

Posts 72

5 posted 2001-07-18 07:43 AM

I believe in yesterday, today and tomorrow, and that you don't have to deny one to enjoy the other, but I enjoyed this as well, thanks

Voiceless
Senior Member

since 2001-02-19

Posts 686
Under the stars upon the wind

6 posted 2001-07-18 11:02 PM

I do not live in yesterday
but remember it fondly.
There are times when moving on
is hard, for one always fears
the thing which they don't know.
Nicely done.

~*Freedom Is Not Free*~ (Korean War Memorial)

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