Au Revoir Poem by Claudia Keelan

Something happened to time
Or something happened to the mind
In time in the months
Of the 1st year after
The 20th century ended
Never before had the present
Filled so with the past's
Immediate and enormous
Body Everything said
Which was meant to be said now
Was a mistake
Now was over really and though
We'd expected it to be over
Years and years before
Here we were
There, the future oh my
Inside its elephant alphabet