Life's Mirror

                             Life’s Mirror        Our future is only our past Reflected, as though in a glass But made mysterious by Time’s Refractions through vague surface-dross That mars its lustre and distorts The details of its imaged shapes.      When […]

                             Life’s Mirror

 

     Our future is only our past

Reflected, as though in a glass

But made mysterious by Time’s

Refractions through vague surface-dross

That mars its lustre and distorts

The details of its imaged shapes.

     When we can rub life’s mirror clean,

(With polish of our common sense),

And turn it to the light of thought

We then may,  retrospectively,

See clearly future’s promised face —

Framed by experiences long

Recalled, forgotten or unknown —

Shining before our widened eyes.

     Our future is only our past

     Reflected as though in a glass.

Author: J. A. Bosworth

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