Tomorrow To Have Lived



Those yesterdays to have gone,
To revisit with wishes...
Them to return to accept as they were.
For a better tomorrow to have lived.
Today?
May seem too late,
To want and anticipate the benefits...
Of what one does done to do that comes.
Like a dream.
Preferring to defer,
The impossible of possibilities.
Although children are told,
To hold onto to 'their' dreams.

Until made convinced,
Easier it would be...
To limit their 'impossible dreams',
More for a nonsense.
Sought to find approved.

Yet...
So many yesterdays were lived.
Not to imagine.
Making wishes to want.
Reminisced to become disappointing.

And so too had been,
Those tomorrows.

Coming to go...again and again.
With nothing to do about them,
But sit.

Clock watching time go by.

From Sunrise until Sunset.
To wonder why,
Nothing about our routined lives to live...
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Submitted by lpahtillah on September 04, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXABXXXXXAXXC XXCXX DBXXX XX XXX E DEXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 804
Words 142
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 13, 5, 5, 2, 3, 1, 4

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