May 19, 2018: For The Moment

For The Moment, I am

For the moment

I am

Why am I?

Nobody really knows
Although the priest and my schoolmasters
Earnestly swore by god and country
That they knew
But they didn't

All I know is

For the moment
I am

The eternal “is”

the eternal moment
or so it seems
for it has stretched out now
over three score years
A lifetime

This moment that

I am

What does it mean?

Nobody really knows
Though the few and the many earnestly insist
They swear by god and country
that they know
but they don't

All I know is

For the moment
I am

The eternal moment

Or so it seems
For it has stretched out now
Over three score years
All I've ever known
a lifetime

All I know is

that for the moment
I am....here.

* I am indebted here to Luther's Small Catechism for the mindless piece of theological tautology in which the student, in response to the question “is the bread and wine the body and blood of our lord and savior Jesus Christ?,” mindlessly replies “Is, is and always is is.”....The ultimate existential reality: the past is dead; the future unborn. The fleeting moment stretched into an eternity, encompassing all that one knows or will ever know; one's own eternal heaven or hell.