While There's Time

Here's a link to my YouTube Channel where I read my poetry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeNcBC_mnM

Tomorrow is
nebulous at best.
A dream of one
who still sleeps.
You are alive now.
Awake in this fresh
green world.
In the planning, we
forget to live.

Ask the mice and men
how plans go.
There are traps and
trivialities that keep
you from carrying on.
Funny things happen on
the way to the bank.
My mom died while
grocery shopping.

Today, peers back at
you from the mirror.
Breath and heartbeat.
Desire and passion.
No one survives this
story.
You're the author and the
protagonist, write it
well.

Author's Note

My latest books, Seedy Town Blues Collected Poems and It's Just a Hop, Skip, and Jump to the Madouse Poems, are available on Amazon.com

www.thomaswcase.com

Reviews

[Michael Sun Bear]

Yes, write it well and you wrote the poem well, and how true the message is. I like how you included mice; clever and true to your message. I also like the line about today peering back at us. My mother loved to gamble smallish amounts and she died pretty much instantly in a casino of a massive stroke. My father was walking to his pickup, was struck by a car at high speed and also I assume died almost instantly. I think I would like to go like my mother; almost no suffering I assume.

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you so much. I'm sorry for your losses. I thought my parents would live forever. I appreciate you.

[Mauricio Montoya]

I'm at a lost for words as what this write meaning for me to understand yet it does make me wonder.
Thank you for sharing.

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you.

[Mauricio Montoya]

Good working bringing the words together.

[red93]

Fabulous Thomas, and wise words indeed. We are all heroes to ourselves maybe. Really Excellent ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you, my friend.

[W. Barrett Munn]

Another fine poem. You have been blessed with a touch of Bukowski.
PS: Comma after Today a typo?

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you, my friend. Yes, typo. Good eye. I appreciate it.

[John the Baptist]

A lot of wisdom and truth in this one. Planning is necessary at times, but we are not guaranteed the next moment. Live in the now. It's the only place that's real.
PS: I don't think you needed that first comma in the last verse.

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you, my friend. I appreciate it.

[Dylan Macadham]

Insightful, clever, words to live by :)

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you so much. I appreciate it.

[Soren]

The passage of time like the pages of a book turn ever toward the end. A wonderful work that spits truth.

[Thomas W Case]

Thank you, my friend. Appreciate it.