I tried living in the now, once long ago
And the future is something unseen and unknown
That moment of time described by Tolle
Was a fashionable truth bought and then sold
You see all that we have is the past and no more
We can’t live in the now or predict what’s to come
These are distractions from the things we should learn
A trick of illusion we cannot discern
Forever we strive for a future we want
But always fall short of the things we should know
Look to the past, that’s where the future lay
Where natural harmony was so common place
We knew who we were and our purpose was pure
But in this day and age our lives are unsure
It was all so simple back then in our past
Our needs were more blatant, our lives less obscure
I don’t say it was easy but at least we would see
Our main focus of living was not based on greed
We relied on each other, one family, one tribe
We looked after each other for the whole to survive
My heart lives in the past because it can’t dwell in today
My hopes for our future rely on yesterday
So this illusion of now will never touch me
Because it\'s the years long ago that will set us free