The Time and Space Around Us

The time and space around us

Is moving forward

Continuously transforming

Into what it must be

In every instant

It will not wait for you

To ponder what you might become

But it will respond

To your actions

Once you undertake them

You have the ability

To become other people

Not in a physical way

Beyond what habits you may change

And how those changes

In behavior

Can manifest them-self

In physical form

Your form

But in an intellectual

And attitudinal way

You have choices to make

In how you view the world

How you view yourself

You send your thoughts

Your actions and reactions

Out into the world each day

These are not random things

They have intention

They have meaning

And they have consequences

Every thought and action

Is another ripple

In an already turbulent surface

Your stream

Mixes and flows

Into around and through

So many others

We can become a wave

Or a waterfall

The new tide lapping

At a distant shore

Or merely the puddle

During a tumultuous storm

That washes away

When the uproar ends

You can be the future

If you pay close attention

To today

And be today

What you want to be tomorrow

What you were yesterday

Only mattered yesterday

And only relates to tomorrow

If you remain stagnant

If who or what you were

Is not who or what

You want to be

Then you should be glad

To know that you alone

Have the ability to change you