Wanting Tomorrow Comments

Again and again we poets learn the lesson of the ages that TIME IS OUR ENEMY, because in its tick-tock monotony it is killing what we most love: youth, beauty, vitality and health, love ones. We can dream of escapes but none is possible. Your dream in this poem is to leap-frog over an bad present into an open future. Alas, time can't be so defeated. It is like the skin which surrounds our souls. B-U-T I am only saying what you already know so well: A Poem creates an alternative reality in which we can dwell imaginatively, ease our pains, heal our wounds, restore our energy ] and then drop back into time.