Promptly Poetry Challenge 2022/2023

#28 Past, Present, Future

The past is gone;
Do not dwell there -
Greet the dawn
With a smile and a prayer.

Live for today*,
It is all we are given;
We are not meant to stay,
With goals we are driven.

With the future in mind,
A cautious stance take;
What shall we find,
With the choices we make?

Write a poem about the
past, present (*today), future
in that order.
(3 quatrains, 12 lines)

quat·rain
/ˈkwäˌtrān/
noun
a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes.