Today and Now (poem)

Today and Now
by Vivien Allen, 23.09.09

We’re always looking forward to tomorrow
Taking for granted the now and today
We spend too much time worrying about the sorrow
Crying for the people who leave but never for those who stay.

We’re always thinking ahead of time
Forgetting the life we are given today and now
We always think too hard to try and make the words rhyme
But we forget the people who try to make our life worthwhile.

We live our lives with our eyes always focused forward
We never bother to look back
But if we do and we see the tracks we left behind
We’ll see the beauty that we missed, the shadows of today and now.

And I see the footprints that tried to catch up with me
It is fading quicker than I could take it in
These footprints are not mine but of someone who’s always been with me
I wish I knew who they belong to, but I walked too far now to see.