Limitations Poem by Kingsley Egbukole

I have not knowledge of tomorrow
I claim
Sure only of yesterday
Gone by just
As I falter with uncertainties of today
In unfolding drama.

Before yesterday I was uncertain of it
Gone by now I know what I knew not
And now yesterday's tomorrow is here
In labour room with me as midwife
A boy or a girl I expect
And lo! two pairs of eyes I see.

Soon tomorrow overcomes today
And the handover leaves no vacuum
I am certain tomorrow will come
With uncertainties today
As inexhaustible future rolls by
Into present and pass to past
The uncertainties bewilder my guessing mind

(Monday 30th August,1999,10.34 pm)