The opposite of Time is Might-Have-Been.
We travel through the tempered void and thus
can change the stream of time to flatter us,
but currents pull us toward what we’ve seen
has come to pass. It lives within us still.
How many restless empires have we torn
down, broken, with their murderers unborn?
How long do we remember who they’ve killed?
How mangled have we made our histories,
those scarred and damning records of events
that never happened, but we can’t unsee?
Our souls are trapped within biographies,
and time is now the prison that prevents
a world of peace, of love–of might-have-been.
© Brian Hugenbruch