Eternal Now

 

Eternal Now

To paraphrase Carlin

Now doesn't really exist

Merely the intersection 

Of future and past

Here it comes..

Wait, it's almost here

Not yet…

Now?

Nope, it's already gone

Here it comes again…

But 

It's the future that

Doesn't exit

Merely a hoped-for 

Potential, 

An assumption

Of continuation 

And the past is

Only a story of what has

Passed through

The eternal present 

Only a pattern of

Neurons strung together

Temporarily until

Those patterns dissolve

Into the Void as

The essence of our

Perceptions also

Dissolves into that same

Void from which our

Constituent essences 

Continually recycled in

The Eternal

Now

–LE

Temporarily Etched On The Ground