The moments may come fast or slow,
The day may panicked be, or zen:
Though we have near or far to go,
We cannot live the past again
There is a silence in the wood,
There is a stillness in the glen,
Though life go bad and hearts come good,
We cannot live the past again
We all would see the world be changed
As girls to women — boys to men —
Then find our heart from hope estranged,
We cannot live the past again
The tracks run far to unknown land,
The chance that comes we cannot ken —
Through all the lives of distance spanned
We cannot live the past again
The unused treadmill at the gym,
The ink gone dry within the pen,
The sun gone down, the eye gone dim,
We cannot live the past again
The grass beyond the railroad track,
The “one day” that demarks the “then” —
The way is forward, never back:
We cannot live the past again
(“Kyrielle” – 5-25-2017)