FUTURE TENSE

In time,

When things erase,

From harsh memory

And in time,

If all beings parade,

Their sad but true stories

Half truths, tardy whims

Phantoms that still haunt them in dead of crimson night

In that time, reason and fate might unite

Fate and freedom might meet

In that time, I will smile at the gods then

Gods of my fore-fathers and then

Begin to tell of old times when rocks were soft

When sands of time glistened aloft,

When rivers flowed with maidens of prosperity

But that is in time,

For now is only now

What is how has always been how

For now,

When future suddenly meets past,

It is sad brevity

For when hope casts a light for all fallen cadres

That time will get me my brothers’ and all others

Back to that future

To the soft rocks

And tell-tale jokes

To the life we used to have before

The wings we used to fly with before

But that is in time

That is only in time…