In Time Poem by Kevin Wyndham Heard

The 'Now' is an instant
Untethered in time
A speck without substance
A ghost on a line
A vanishing Present
Sliding into the past
An ethereal slice
Without quantum or mass

It slips through our fingers
As we try to hang on
The tighter we grasp it
The faster it's gone
We can't pin it down
Can't measure or hold it
And if it exists
We don't need to be told it

We live for the Present
Or so it is said,
The Past and the Future
Are all in our head
Pure thought spread asunder
Flung away to the stars
A multiverse splintered
Timelines scattered afar

All possible Futures
Exist and have gone
And infinite shadows
Inhabit The One
You are more than you seem
So remember this rhyme:
I was then
I am now
And I shall be
In Time...

(revised version 27/7/14)