Present

It's all we can do

each and every day.

Live in the present,

present ourselves.

Even though it's

a verb and a noun

it means the same thing, right?

As much as we can learn from the past

and plan for the future

We only live now

we can only give now.

History reeks of the trappings of before,

will bind us if we give it

belief it doesn't deserve.

It's not freeing, it's just true

that we only work in the present.

The difference between Zurara and Reynolds 

is that the former constructed structures,

impervious to change

rooted behind those of us in the present.

We can't change what has happened.

But Reynolds points and says

"we can demolish these structures now"

insofar as we can see them.

We can change what is happening.

The past is dead, long live the present

Here now. What I'm doing. I'm reading, aren't I?

I'm giving myself a piece of myself to you

only alive

when I present it, 

in the present. 

Otherwise it's dead words

on dead paper or static internet files.

There's a reason the books we read use the present-tense.

Tyrone isn't stuck in some event in 2002 before Grimes captured him

He's a kid who grows only as the readers grow,

only as we flip the pages

does he develop 

and learn 

and we develop 

and learn.

We find a voice as the book presents itself to us

and we are called to present ourselves back.

Not to Grimes or our teachers 

but to the whole world

because without repeated presentation

how are we supposed to re-present, represent, ourselves?

Without presenting we don't exist

and not in a harmless 

peaceful way

but in a "how can you connect with other people" way.

If there's one thing that we learn in that last auditorium

Is that the path to learning is only through the presenting, the present.


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