I am yesterday. I am gone from you for ever. I am the last of a long procession of days, streaming behind you, away from you, pouring into mist and obscurity, and at last into the ocean of oblivion. I depart from you, yet I am ever with you. Once I was called Tomorrow, and was virgin pure; then I became your bride and was named Today; now I am Yesterday, and carry upon me the eternal stain of your embrace. I am one of the leaves of a growing book. There are many pages before me. Some day you will turn us all over, and read us, and know what you are. I am rich, for I have wisdom. I bore you a child, and left him with you. His name is Experience. I am Yesterday; yet I am the same as Today and Forever; for I am you; and you cannot escape from yourself. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON THE AMOROUS AND PATHETIC STORY OF ARCADIUS AND SEPHA by L. B. ANIMALS, AND THEIR COUNTRIES by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD NO MARVEL IS IT by BERNART DE VENTADORN MOONSTRUCK by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT WE GO ON by NELLIE MANLEY BUCK REPRISAL by PAULINE JONES BURNS |