Time

imagine a backyard full of junk

a forrest a tornado has passed through

a front yard overgrown with weeds

a teenager's room with strewn books and cloths

now take a mighty long string

drop it all over the debris here and there

anyway you like it, you string it up

you string it down and over

each point of that string

has a tension this way and that

each point is tied

to the previous point and the next

now imagine time is like that string

each moment depends on two points

the previous and the next

the present hangs on the future and the past

we think that we have freewill

but we act upon the past events

we anticipate the future outcomes

we tie the past and the future with the present

the freewill is overrated

the past is done and over with

the future is determined

by t, t plus one and t minus one

You can move that t

anywhere along the timeline

from here to eternity

or to the beginning of time

the future is like the front yard

overgrown with weed

or, the backyard

full of junk