Here and Now

by R. D. Ashby

If there is only the now, whatever
the future, the past, it is
here and now, waiting, and set.

Yet our lives each appear to be
on a curve, the future a projection,
the past a record, here and now.

The volume and extent of our world
in real imagery, degrees
of freedom, is here and now.

Seated in this chair, I am the same
as someone driving miles
and miles, in the here and now.

I am in the same moment as
the oldest man, the babe in arms,
we blink in the here and now.

Life, death, the after-life,
what are these but captions
in the here and now?

28-Feb-2010

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