Then And There

The way my life has come and gone

was, has, had and seems to have

an only partially conscious present.

It happened and I see it happened.

It will, and I still see it will.

And these are in my thoughts: 

the past and future.

Sages tell us to live in the present,

embrace the moment, the here and now.

For me these are often there and then.

memory and anticipation.