(Appreciated when listening to Now’s The Time, by Charlie Parker)
Now is the time to seize
For still it doesn’t freeze
No, nor can it
Be forwarded
As fast as you would please
Time, once you begin it
Keeps you moving in it
Because somehow
It’s always now
At any given minute
Now’s the time to seize
Not sooner or later
Just now
Now is the time it stays
Yes, during all our days
As now one leaves
One now receives
Another in its place
A now is nature’s lever
Leveraging forever
Always insistent
Any instant
Starts as now or never
Now’s the time it stays
Not sooner or later
Just now
This moment is a present
That the past has granted a future
Any more future we get granted
We’ll see at the instant on which it has landed
To take a bow
Will be, somehow
The time we call “now”
Now is the time to come
And now’s the time it’s from
Now is the essence
Of a presence
And the total sum
What it all now amounts to
Is just as now I found you
I also know
A while ago
That now then I was bound to
Now’s the time to come
Not sooner or later
Just now