The eternal now

Edward T Medalis 1939 (Detroit Michigan)



All energy is the Eternal Now
The forms of energy move and mutate
The motion continuum cannot stop
The Eternal Now is always in flux
The Eternal Now is reality
There is no time in the Eternal Now
Humans are a part of the Eternal Now
Mind is the patterns that swirl in the brain
Our senses and nerves submit to delay
Knowing the Now, motion does not allow
Minds always lag the Eternal Now
Our minds only feed on what is past
Delay in mind makes thought past, you see
If your mind knows it, it's history
Records are states of Now that persist
Persistence is not permanent, though
It is required for us to know
Records tell stories of motions too
Some are old, some are recently new
The records in the Now define the past
Records come via senses quite slow
Records sometimes mutate as they flow
Sense data is changed to memories
Minds process only their memories
The recent past is the minds present
But the Now it really isn't
Future's not real, it does not exist
We live in the present most people insist
But based on a past that does not exist
All of knowledge, what we think and see
Is abstraction of reality
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Edward T Medalis

High school, Electronics, and Computer Programming Education. Atheist and poet. Served in the US Army for 3 years. Worked in Greenland on the BMEWS project for 1.5 years. Retired from a career at IBM with the title of Computer Scientist working primarily on imbedded operating systems software and microprocessor testing software. more…

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