by Mary Padilla
I said what I said.
I said what I meant.
And I meant what I said
when I said it.
And that was true then
but now this is now,
and you need to continue
to change with the times.
Things that don’t bend,
will go on to break.
Being rigid can get
in the way of what’s real.
How could I know
when I said what I said
just what that would mean
some time after I said it?
Things change, and then
we need to change with them,
or be left far behind
when the paradigm shifts.
Yes, it was true then
but it no longer fits
what is right now or
will be in the future.
We can’t just stop time
and if we still try
it is then more than likely
that time will stop us.
To stay in the stream,
we have got to release,
or it will keep flowing on
past and then over us.
Mary Padilla: I write to see what will come out.