Now and Then it Rains

Eternity is this moment

in evolutionary throes.

Now is just part of the present.

It is static and yet it flows.

Even protean tomorrows

are really the product of change.

and the present moment borrows

from a past which is always strange.

Across the event horizon

creation is never allowed.

We must always keep our eyes on

the real potential of a cloud.

If tomorrows cloud gives us rain

we say, “Now it’s raining again.”

Walt Abbott–1-6-2010