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The present is not now enough. The near future already is past tense. Always having to plan ahead leaving the past far behind me. I barely let the present permeate me. Enjoying a still moment in time befalls so intense that it's over before I even realize something beautiful is passing by. Instead of pausing and trying to embrace it with all my heart and soul my thoughts rush on afraid of looking back knowing that once more I made a mistake. I also know too well I will have to wait resignedly to miss such an opportunity again. And again. And again. What can I do to slow myself down? What do I have to do to let me see that the future has already begun and that I don't need to pursue the past? The notion I know where I go wrong is not enough: the urge to go onward is stronger than the will to dwell upon what I have What have I got? The knowledge that somewhere along the road, tranquility is waiting. I have got to get there fast ...
© René Wirtz 2000, 2001