Ashes of Now

It’s quicker than you think.
Faster than a click,
How the now becomes,
Part of the then.

With every step you take,
The present vanish,
Into the realm of the gone.
With every breath you sip,
You burn today down
To the ashes of the faded,
Only to ignite the birth
Of a new dawn.

It happens in a blink,
When here regress,
The bygone thrives.
And just like that,
Comes another chapter,
Another hereafter.

We don’t live for the thrill,
We barely live at all.
But we don’t live for the rush,
Nor for how the ashes stash.
We happened to be there,
When the present disappear,
And become another.
And then another.