IT IS ALWAYS TODAY

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It is always today; never tomorrow.
All we know comes from the past,
Be it happy thought or unpleasant sorrow,
We are, what our minds have amassed.

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What we now are, was moulded by time,
Structured with all we have done.
Though we tread water, our lives still decline
And we lose everything that we have won.

~ 3 ~

What we can't change, we have to accept;
For passed time can't be retrieved
No matter how much we've silently wept;
Nothing more than release is achieved.

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Everyone dies: be it as soldiers in war
Or as old men who whither away.
We may ask the question, "What is it all for?"
But still, we die and decay.

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Children and mothers – they also died
Under the smoke of our chattering guns.
Politicians and journalist, most of them lied,
But yesterday still never comes.

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We cannot revive all the victims of war.
And feeling sorry takes no pain away.
Those who protested are protesting no more
For we are still fighting our wars today.

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For when they stood up, calling it wrong,
We called them traitors for condemning the war.
Now we the protestors are singing their song,
Wiser by far than before.

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But time will repeat the dreams in our sleep,
And for the suffering many will pray.
But nothing will change so long as we weep
For our yesterdays that continue today.