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The Future is Now

TSS Official Poem



In 1976 I wrote the first version of this poem. There have been subsequent edits of it by myself and with help from others. The current version contains a small change but is essentially the same version I've been using recently. I have read it at the end of every class I've taught. It expresses my outlook on life and change very well. I have designated it as the "official" poem of TSS.

The Future is Now

Heeding the call for newness in time,
One can think of the past.
Knowing the future is there to come,
Yet expecting the present to last.

The present is the past when the future comes,
How time confuses it all!
The past is the present when the future's to come,
Just like a a revolving ball.

But what is the reason for all this chatter?
What is the thing that is a matter?
It's really this, for this is how,
We come to know the Future is Now.

The point again is the past is gone,
Never to be retrieved.
The present is always taking its bow,
And thus we're left with the Future as Now.

The past is shaped, the present is gone,
Put on the shelf to be in view.
So if the future is what we have,
Let's start to live it, with me and you.

One last point would seem in tune,
Without understanding it would end too soon.
The point that I've been trying to make,
Is live your life for its own sake.


David H. Kessel
1998