It’s Now and Never

The one not satisfied now,
Is the one not satisfied ever,
For the time that is not now
Is the time that will be never.

Everything happens now,
Nothing happens later,
And the difference between those times
Is as real as the equator.

So you can make your future plans,
But to bring them to fruition,
Now and never later
Is when you press ignition.

Now is when you do all the things you do—
There is no later time to say
“I should have done that then,”
For every time that time arrives,
It is always now again.

—Saint Andrew of Snohomish