The Future

A wish
An aspiration
A dream
Of now

Farther along
The space/time
Continuum

An illusion
Does not
Exist

Only now and
Memories of
‘Nows’ gone by

Some recorded
Rendered
Memories

But gone

My wish
For the ‘future’
Is that now
Allows me
The optimism
To dream of

Better ‘nows’

–LE