Poem - Eternal Now (Split from, "Time")

[machapungo]

A few years ago I wrote a poem on this topic and I called it "Eternal Now" . Some may like it.

ETERNAL NOW

 

All energy is the Eternal Now

The forms of energy move and mutate

The motion continuum cannot stop

 

The Eternal Now is always in flux

The Eternal Now is reality

There is no Time in the Eternal Now

 

Humans are part of the Eternal Now

Mind is the patterns that swirl in the brain

Our senses and nerves submit to delay

Knowing the Now, motion does not allow

 

Minds always lag the Eternal Now

Our minds only feed on what is past

Delay in mind makes thought past, you see

If your mind knows it, it's history

 

Records are states of Now that persist

Persistence is not permanent, though

It is required for us to know

Records tell stories of motions too

Some are old, some are recently new

 

The records in the Now define the past

Records come via senses quite slow

Records sometimes mutate as they flow

Sense data is changed to memories

Minds process only their memories

 

We live the present most people insist

But based on a past that doesn't exist

The future is not now, it isn't real

So, where does that leave us? What is this deal?

 

All of knowledge, what we think, and see

Is abstraction of reality!

How can we cope as part of abstraction?

Understanding is the satisfaction!

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Copyright 2007 ETM