Our Once & Future Selves.

In every moment

we're the culmination of the people we once were

and the people we will be.

A wave that crests, curls, and folds in on itself

ever-new and unchanging 

all at once.

If we take that brave, close look, 

we're the same people we've always been

living what seem to be 

many lives in the space of 

this one we're given.

Looking at myself

I see the same eyes and expression.

Things that made me happy then

are the ones that make me 

smile now.

To remember I'm the same 

is a good thing;  instead of running 

away from who I was

toward never-ending self-improvement,

it's a comfort to  

recognize something familiar in the mirror: 

that I'm in a new version 

of my same self,

and that's exactly how it should be.