{"id":90606,"date":"2021-06-26T12:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90606"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:41:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:41:41","slug":"dont-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/dont-look-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Look Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poem 4<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Look Away<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our life happening, I told her, or would have told her if I could have caught my breath long enough to say it over the clamor of the clarinet and fiddle, and it\u2019s happening right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael Chabon, Manhood for Amateurs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This is our life happening, I told her,<\/p>\n

or would have told her<\/p>\n

if I could have caught my breath<\/p>\n

long enough to say it over the clamor<\/p>\n

of the clarinet and fiddle,<\/p>\n

and it\u2019s happening right now.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This is life<\/p>\n

catch your breath<\/p>\n

dismiss the clamor<\/p>\n

play your fiddle<\/p>\n

be here now.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This is life<\/p>\n

it\u2019s all ya got<\/p>\n

so play it right<\/p>\n

and don\u2019t ever<\/p>\n

ever ever ever<\/p>\n

think that the future<\/p>\n

is more important<\/p>\n

than now\u2026<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

because the past<\/p>\n

must have shown you<\/p>\n

that looking ahead<\/p>\n

makes you blind to right now.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And the best part of now<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

is that if you do it just right<\/p>\n

it becomes the future you\u2019d<\/p>\n

been striving so hard to create.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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