Grasp The Present Poem by Jaipal Singh

Our life is a book
Each phase a chapter
Then the birth and death
Represent prologue and epilogue.

But unlike the book
Life goes only one way
A person can visit pages back
Only in memories and thoughts.

We can't amend past
We can't foresee future
A reason strong enough
To grasp only the present.

Despite this we continue
To loathe and live the past
And keep pondering the future
Unable to live the beautiful present.