Im going to be the voice of dissent and say the poem is disjointed and simply misses the mark. "time is a mystery born to tell the tale of what is no more and things that prevail"? no it isn't.i know what you going for but to say that time is born to tell us what time does/is just sounds incoherent at best and wrong on its surface.as to the ending stanza i know your talking about the fact we all get old but the ego-centrist nature of "we all will follow YOU"I find off-putting.you could have worded it differently. i suspect you were feeling rather lordly the night you composed it

You writing is flawless! you are very talented! great write!

This is pretty good, i just feel like reading it a thousand times... Well done

Michael...your write and take on life..thanks for the trip..kj

I like this a lot - the second from last stanza is particularly good in my opinion. "I thought yesterday, tomorrow I will think" - clever line. Well written, Michael.

I will disagree with "Onethuscome". We all have our own way of writing, and sometimes we let all the emotions pour our on paper and arouses the need to relate and fit in with those around you. People understand this poem differently since are all different.
So, let your way of writing be understood by those who understand.
We can't all share the same way of words, we learn to appreciate from within.
I'm sure some may disagree with me when I say,

"The time of yesterdays was a future from another day" .

However much we try to make everything linear to our what makes us we will never be able to understand the words of the other person if we not open to the idea of how that person understands them.

I think the poem is beautiful and I like the the flow.....

NB/ That was just my open opinion.

Amazing writing. touchy. beautiful poem indeed.

"My Dear Friends as You Pass By
As You are Now, So Once Was I.
As I am Now, You Soon Must Be.
Prepare Yourselves to Follow Me."

One way of ending such an amazing poem.
Truth be said it really got to my nerves.
I like the tone and the flow.

All the best Shanky.

"My Dear Friends as You Pass By
As You are Now, So Once Was I.
As I am Now, You Soon Must Be.
Prepare Yourselves to Follow Me."

I loved this clever little bit at the end. It kinda makes you stop and think about how we all are, or were, or will be, the same.