Two Girls And The Eternal Present

(Eternity is in love with the creations of time. Blake)

The present is itself eternal,

being what we are and were and will be.

Two beautiful girls go by,

their swaying hips—

One wearing tight jeans with her belly out,

the other, a flimsy, short skirt

of fleeting material, full of holes

to let in air and imagination.

These girls, in essence, 

are the world,

Not just for me, but themselves, 

the future, even the past, 

delightful wenches on a carnival evening:

Eternal Beauty, happening by.