About Her

17: Warning

You know what you want to do, you know where to stay

But future says otherwise, and this will lead you astray

Go to places, they tell you. Live now, they say.

But regret is your fear; the unknown you will obey

You think of the people who may not even arrive

For future is your present, for future you shall strive

But one day you'll ask if you have even lived

You regret, and cry for the self you have ribbed

The regret you fear in the future became regret of the past

And the contentment you have worked for did not even last

You wake in your nightmare, and then lived in the now

To relish the present becomes your new vow

But after years of bliss, you still ended in agony

And you regretted your choices, unaccepting, painfully

The future becomes the now, the now in remorse

You ask uncertainly, has your life been truly yours?

You then wake again, and you try to picture

A way to combine the present and the future

This time you will remember a point you must not resent

The present was once future, and the future will be your present