Ends Usher New Beginnings

Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present. - Thoreau

tell me

is this the end

i thought time doesn't bend

there's always more to spend

maybe its just a new trend

with ever more to lend

diving boards don't back bend

blood oath's don't amend

only stomachs distend

you must approve to commend

assert to contend

you must have a plan to intend

turn over to upend

straighten to unbend

pay more postage to resend

capture to apprehend

borrow to extend

go beyond to transcend

mix to blend

go down to descend

you must have a plan to intend

it takes more to trend

Author's Note

"But let us hear a strain of music, we are at once advertised of a life which no man had told us of, which no preacher preaches. Suppose I try to describe faithfully the prospect which a strain of music exhibits to me. The field of my life becomes a boundless plain, glorious to tread, with no death nor disappointment at the end of it. All meanness and trivialness disappear. I become adequate to any deed. No particulars survive this expansion; persons do not survive it. In the light of this strain there is no thou nor I. We are actually lifted above ourselves." - Thoreau