Teik's Weblog: Tenses Matter

March 06, 2006

Tenses Matter - Poem

Raise up old ghosts

that hail and wave,

old memories that flit through

an already over-crowded mind.

They beckon me ahead

or are they waving me

back?

Memories like these always pass unheeded

when joys are still around us -

tears seem to be in the past,

or are they in the future?

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