Yesterday was like today
When you smiled in your head
“Oh there are many more days
Days and still more days ahead”
Yesterday when you said
“Better days are surely coming
Better times up on the horizon”
Yesterday was the day you said
“Tomorrow will be another day
Tomorrow is when I’ll do all
All I didn’t do yesterday”
Yesterday was when words were hollow words
When full emptiness filled your words
Yesterday was when you did nothing
Tangible nothing
Thinking to do it today
Thinking yesterday was too rainy
Thinking today will be so sunny
Yesterday was when you crossed two arms
…close to an open chest
When you clasped two palms
…between two thighs
Yesterday was when you featured the future
Just in your mind
When you figured out the future
Just on your fingers
When you flipped through the future
Just on your flipside
Yesterday was when you proposed out of no purpose
When you postponed what you propounded
When you abandoned what you promised
When you promised only to improvise
Yesterday was when you tarried lazily
When you veered into inactivity
When you planted the tears of today
Tears you feared yesterday
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Yesterday was when you ought to have prepared
When you should have dared
Dared to clear what blurred your vision
Yesterday was when you ought to have yearned
When you should have revved up your gears
Geared to tread on a path to a mission
Yesterday was when you ought to have been steady
When you should have been ready
Ready to put your hands to the plough
…to plough to sow
…to go for gold
Yesterday was when you ought to have remembered
When you should have learned
That time and tidal waves
Waited for no man’s slumbering ways
That the hours that made the days
Abated not in procrastinating days
