LIVE FOR TODAY -- THERE IS NO TOMORROW
We have to live for today
Because there will be no tomorrow,
The fascists ruling us today
Make our lives a sorrow.
So waste no time making plans
To fulfill some other day,
All hope and dreams are fading fast
As tomorrow is fading away.
Live only for the moment
Dream no dreams and make no plans,
For the future is surely fading out
Due to life’s unholy demands.
Dream no dreams of tomorrow
Hope no hopes for the future,
For nothing is just around the corner
Today is everything you are.
Hope no hopes or promises
For your hopes are surely false,
Your life is fading like yesterday
Like a patient without a pulse.
Only emptiness is around the corner
Don’t plan for a future not there,
Live each day as though it’s your last
For tomorrow is lost to despair.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About this poem
An anti-fascist poem about my belief that the future does not exist!
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Written on December 02, 2010
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on July 02, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABAB CADA XCXX BEEE XXAX EFDF XXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 809 |
Words | 152 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
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