A Deal With Tomorrow
by JM Prescott
Today I made a deal with Tomorrow.
It's almost winter there.
He promised me he'd read what I wrote,
And I promised I'd write about him.
"Hero or Villain?"
"Does it matter?"
"I guess not."
Tomorrow has a way of blurring the lines.
I suppose I'd rather Tomorrow be heroic.
It would make the passing of time less villainous.
And I hate to think of myself in terms Yesterday.
"Do you think of yourself as the future?"
He laughs.
I never get my answer.
Someone told me that I'd cross thirteen timezones just to see him.
But I was just going to see what Tomorrow was like.
It's almost winter there.
He promised me he'd read what I wrote,
And I promised I'd write about him.
"Hero or Villain?"
"Does it matter?"
"I guess not."
Tomorrow has a way of blurring the lines.
I suppose I'd rather Tomorrow be heroic.
It would make the passing of time less villainous.
And I hate to think of myself in terms Yesterday.
"Do you think of yourself as the future?"
He laughs.
I never get my answer.
Someone told me that I'd cross thirteen timezones just to see him.
But I was just going to see what Tomorrow was like.
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Author's Note
I was speaking with a friend in Australia where it was Tomorrow already. My fascination with his present - my future, prompted him to say "write about it with tomorrow's Thinking Ten prompt" which just happened to be to use the phrase "I'd cross thirteen timezones just to see him."
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Really nice JM.
I, too, often think, usually when I first wake, about all those people who have already left what I am just about to begin.
Brilliant poem JM! As a tomorrow land person I can relate to this.
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Very cool!