Naught for Tomorrow
Naught For Tomorrow
By Chris Commodore © 2004
Oh, expectations damned
Hopes dashed and orphaned dreams
Still marching on this idle pledge
Still sitting on this morbid fatal ledge
Tomorrow the sun calmly rises
But promises no new surprises
No time to dwell on vanished dreams and cry
As if some novel banner that will fly
Fate cannot be undone
Unless one jabs the sun, perhaps
To speed the resurrection
Blow away “would-haves,” “should-haves,” “could-haves.”
Uttered in wishful tense, falling and tumbling
Like drunken autumn leaves arrested by the wind
Enough of your jeering and taunting
What never was can’t be
Only the whimpering of “might-be’s” and “what-ifs.”
Dead glory snared like ghosts
Beneath life’s peevish waves
About this poem
An awakening regarding the tendency to procrastinate; to always put things up for tomorrow, then later lament one's situations ... Perhaps this poem could be re-titled "Procrastination."
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