I am yesterday. I am gone from you for ever. I am the last of a long procession of days, streaming behind you, away from you, pouring into mist and obscurity, and at last into the ocean of oblivion. I depart from you, yet I am ever with you. Once I was called Tomorrow, and was virgin pure; then I became your bride and was named Today; now I am Yesterday, and carry upon me the eternal stain of your embrace. I am one of the leaves of a growing book. There are many pages before me. Some day you will turn us all over, and read us, and know what you are. I am rich, for I have wisdom. I bore you a child, and left him with you. His name is Experience. I am Yesterday; yet I am the same as Today and Forever; for I am you; and you cannot escape from yourself. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOVER'S MESSAGE; SONG by JOHN DRYDEN LEMON PIE by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST THE DARK FOREST by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS DISCIPLINE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE DAWN PATROL by PAUL BEWSHER THE CITY [OF THE DEAD]. by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON A PARAPHRASE ON THE PRAYER, USED IN THE CHURCH LITURGY by JOHN BYROM |