Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
This is the Wakefield Doctrine’s contribution to the Six Sentence Story bloghop.
Denise is the host
The prompt word is:
PRESENT
Time is not the falling of anonymous grains of sand. Time is not the un-human tick of insensate teeth ratcheting down in circular metallic viscera. Time is not the breathless sighing of decorated and divided paper, claiming past hopes and X-ing out failings like overly-sensitive girls and vainglorious boys.
The present is the waist of the hourglass, the future, heard in the metronomic beat of the clock and the past, the greatest of life’s poseurs, leaves an ink-stained trail of written promises and silent disappointments.
It has been truthfully said that time waits for no one. Yet the presence of god lies in its nature, to accompany us until we no longer require its progress report.
About clarkscottroger
Exquisite Six, master Weaver.
If this was a single malt, it would be a Macallan, 25 YO.
Thank you, Mr. ‘keeper
Reminds my of the old Sanskrit proverb.
Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow a vision;
but today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Live well today.
This is excellent, Clark! My post does not stand anywhere close in comparison.
If I may take exception, this (from your Six):
“…there is no future, and the present is nothing but a summary of the past.”
the best we can hope for, imo, in our respective search is to find/discover/devise words and phrases that resonate that, I suspect, is as close as we can get to knowing another on the path.
Shit damn, sir. Wordless, so if Nick will allow, I’ll piggyback on his “Exquisite Six, master Weaver.”
This is brilliantly phrased.
Thank you, M
Many of my to-do lists leave “an ink-stained trail of written promises and silent disappointments”.
This is very profound and wonderous.
Thanks, Chris