Present Moments Only
Fragments of life are all around,
for we love to separate the whole.
No oneness of purpose allowed,
no one desire for peace, for calm,
but rather a calamity of non events,
one noise to another suits us best.
We leap from each present moment
to one from history or fall into trap
of our own future hopes or fears.
Even though life is only really Now,
we take our history of the bygone
times so seriously, we hold the past
tight inside, digest events, over and
over, chewing cud from dead times,
has become our favourite pastime.
Others sit in fear of what’s to come,
live a future with hope of better luck.
No guarantee the future ever comes.
Yet things are happening right Now;
are we as the only thinking beings
of our world incapable of feeling,
sensing time as it arrives. For each
moment is so rich with knowledge.
But if we have time travelled, we
miss the significance of what it is
like to live in present time, we
fail to see, we let pass the beauty
of life’s flow, its offering of peace.
We miss the meaning of living Now.
Experiencing life’s joy as it happens,
not second hand remains of a story
that will have no repeat performance.
No past episodes, can be replayed,
for they are dead, will not be relived.
So leave them now, do not attach
to long dead things, live only Now.
Bob Blackwell
09-12-2011
I am reading much and try to always write and live in the NOW It is the best most inspiring place to be I do believe. Great Poem Bob !!!
your poems are always in time for me..i recently find it hard to live in the moment to be true, to appreciate everything as it is. thanks for this wonderful piece, Bob.
we do live in the now, but memories of the past continue to come forth. It is hard not to think back . nice poem Bob.
this poem is well written but the world it describes is more dangerous that the one we inhabit; with Amnesia regarding the past and with no thought for the future we would not survive as a species! Like it or not we are trans-time beings. We left the garden with its low lying fruit a long time ago. What we need is a happy medium.
Bob , Like the true Zen Master you have prescribed that real life and living is in the instant now ! To relish our present moment , for once gone shall never terurn again ! -Raj
Dear Bob, // There is much wisdom in this well-written poem, but I disagree with it somewhat, only in part. I know, more than many, that we need to live in the now. On the other hand, I find that the now can be rich with memories of the past, when I reminsice. As for the futre--mine is veiled. // A great write. I wouldn't change a word. --Michael
the most difficult task on earth: live only Now.... still we should...
i liked,"each moment rich with knowledge ",so true and the quintessence of this beautiful poem !