No Tomorrow

 

 

Is there a tomorrow?

No, not at all!

Today is all that there is,

Tomorrow is not our call.

 

Life consists of the now:

That is really today,

There is nothing beyond

So do not delay.

 

It makes sense to plan

But to plan today,

It should be pretty obvious

There is no other way.

 

You can’t plan tomorrow

When all you have is now

So, don’t try the impossible

That can’t be done anyhow.

That tomorrow never comes

Is an essential fact,

You do what you can today

And then… relax.

 

Never a now moment

In any tomorrow;

Not a minute from the past

Can we ever borrow.

 

I have heard some talk

About planning ahead

But they did not understand

What they actually said.

 

Planning is done now

It can never be done ahead,

I need not say more on that

So, enough said.

  

No tomorrow!

I need to emphasize that:

And today is not tomorrow

That too is a fact.

 

Tomorrow is a notion:

It’s like an idea in our mind,

The other days we name

But re tomorrow, we decline.

 

Today being Friday

Means tomorrow is Saturday

But do we say its name?

No, “tomorrow” is our way.

 

You’ll never see tomorrow

In the days of any week,

That’s just to make my point

Without getting in too deep.

 

I guess you can say the same

For today and yesterday

But both of these are facts:

One is passed; the other is today.

Tomorrow is never a fact

Neither can we say it will be,

Yesterday was and that’s for sure

And now today we see.

 

“Give us this day our daily bread.”

It doesn’t say tomorrow:

God provides for our todays;

And soothes today’s sorrows.

 

“Act, act in the living present.”

Remember the Psalm of Life?

For there is no tomorrow;

Only today’s strife.

 

Stewart Russell © August 21, 2020