Tomorrow's Yesterday.

by Michael D Nalley   Oct 12, 2010


Knowing tomorrow's yesterday is not cliche
It is so much easier just to say today
Tomorrows come where yesterdays are found
Nothing is lost when our world turns around

Many new lives begin with a single beat
Not meant to end before it is complete
Joys of yesterday followed by tomorrow
May be welcomed by souls of untold sorrow

We may not live to see what tomorrow brings
Unless we let our spirit soar on angel's wings
Loving with our whole being and all of our strength
Reaching for new heights of an infinite length

Time is a mystery born to tell the tale
Of what is no more, and things that prevail
Many philosophers have had the driving urge
To find out where opposites meet and merge

Soon the future will arrive to become the past
Creating for us all the dreams that somehow last
Though the seasons will come and then they will go
Will there always be something left behind to grow?

Seconds increase to minutes, and then the minutes to hours
Hours to days, weeks to months, the years have powers,
To turn once again yesterdays to tomorrows today
How else could it be now, is there any other way?

I thought yesterday, tomorrow I will think
About all of the things written in ink
Words that nobody would claim to own
Like the ones I've read on a tombstone.

"My Dear Friends as You Pass By
As You are Now, So Once Was I.
As I am Now, You Soon Must Be.
Prepare Yourselves to Follow Me."

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  • 7 years ago

    by Belle

    "My Dear Friends as You Pass By
    As You are Now, So Once Was I.
    As I am Now, You Soon Must Be.
    Prepare Yourselves to Follow Me."

    I loved this clever little bit at the end. It kinda makes you stop and think about how we all are, or were, or will be, the same.

  • 8 years ago

    by DarkLight

    "My Dear Friends as You Pass By
    As You are Now, So Once Was I.
    As I am Now, You Soon Must Be.
    Prepare Yourselves to Follow Me."

    One way of ending such an amazing poem.
    Truth be said it really got to my nerves.
    I like the tone and the flow.

    All the best Shanky.

  • 8 years ago

    by Boy

    Amazing writing. touchy. beautiful poem indeed.

  • 8 years ago

    by DarkLight

    I will disagree with "Onethuscome". We all have our own way of writing, and sometimes we let all the emotions pour our on paper and arouses the need to relate and fit in with those around you. People understand this poem differently since are all different.
    So, let your way of writing be understood by those who understand.
    We can't all share the same way of words, we learn to appreciate from within.
    I'm sure some may disagree with me when I say,

    "The time of yesterdays was a future from another day" .

    However much we try to make everything linear to our what makes us we will never be able to understand the words of the other person if we not open to the idea of how that person understands them.

    I think the poem is beautiful and I like the the flow.....

    NB/ That was just my open opinion.

  • 8 years ago

    by Ben Pickard

    I like this a lot - the second from last stanza is particularly good in my opinion. "I thought yesterday, tomorrow I will think" - clever line. Well written, Michael.

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