A moment ago I heard a whisper and knew it true

A voice an echo heard throughout life feeling grew

It inner heard voice reason a thought what’s right

A mission in my heart to always hold dearly tight

A second of time passes by the voice soon ignored

Reason and different thoughts intrude ego soared

Captive held not life but of all lost and soon gone

It harkened and not abided and never heart atone

Free the past in today be ever present and known

Of the past never in the future be portray foregone

The moment at hand be free here to live its time

Steal its glory turn upon past win or loss a crime

The moment is gone as soon as it had begun past

Nothing good or bad will future hold certainly fast

A glimpse a whisper in time a moment soon depart

My question others present will feel in their heart

This too shall pass upon the sands as they move

Some moment long ago I won’t be held a groove

Pasts went by a moment a day a year or long ago

Their lessons are but in this moment I can grow

The voice long ago deep in my heart of life proceed

A path true being of sympathy of kind heart did lead

Echoes now as in my life and sometimes I dismissed

It is a moral conscious that I know a voice persisted

Jim

Copyright 2011 Jim Long

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