Life Lives Here in the Now
by Zachary Adama
I can
do nothing
about the past.
The future
is not
guaranteed.
I lived
in the past
I may not
live in
the future.
I am alive
only in the
present moment.
Life lives
here
in the now.
The past
is a graveyard
the future
a dream.
I will not
agonize over
dead things.
I will not
worry about
dreams.
I will live
among
the living.
Where
joy and light
lives.
I will
make my present
a heaven
until I have no
presents left.
I will be good
and practice virtue
without regret
for the past
or hope
for the future.