Yesterday

All the hypothetical yesterdays

The conditional ifs that strew our ragged paths

Like trash littering the pavement

What if I had gone there, instead of here?

What if I had turned left instead of right?

An unbegun tomorrow

Begets an unfinished yesterday

Today is always twilight

Between the night of the future

And the daylight of the past

Full of uncertainties

Haunted by lost spirits and ghosts

Cast in shadows and indistinct forms

Always ending in darkness of the unknown

A giant, absolute shadow cast over the world

We can only ever know

Who and what we are

By what we are not

And can never be