Retrospective

It is a profoundly irritating fact

that life will never seem as bad

as it does right now

when now has passed,

and continued onto then;

from then to on and on, and so on.

For looking back from now to then,

then won’t seem as bad

as it did back then, and as a consequence

we are able to face then again

and that is what makes us carry on

and on and so on.

John H Davies

11th March 2011