When? Then?
Now? Now then. Back when-
between now and then. In the past, not alive as "in" the past or as buried under, down in the back where, back when we want-
Now.
It's alive again and then it never was, is, has been-
Been stalling for some time, stall, a place to park, in the shade-time wasted, delayed, squandered, gone...it's going even now even though we don't feel it unless we move too fast or not at all, I never knew it had been now or never, nothing, measurable, nothing pleasurable comes, becomes a fleetin moment, a palpitation unmentionable and broken. A sinking feeling of tummy twists leaden, plummeting in silence, stillness eludes, discontent stacks past seconds, more, thirds, everything and their firsts waiting for someone, not you-anymore.
See? Where has the time gone now?
Exactly where you left it,
behind you, projecting your history on to others coming up back there as you race forward,
late for the future-again.
Image By Abbie Rowe, 1905-1967, Photographer (NARA record: 8451352) (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons of reporters rushing through the White House, 8/14/1945.
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