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It’s This Spring, It’s This May

What we see in the present was the future, now the past.

David schell
Aug 24, 2025
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It’s This Spring, It’s This May

Some have secondhand
that spins around the dial.
Some count off in digits.
You can set the style.

What we see in the present
was the future, now the past.
Time’s always moving.
Time doesn’t last.

It’s this year, it’s this month,
It’s this spring, it’s this May.
It’s this hour, it’s this minute.
It’s in this second of t…

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