Nothing Stays To Remain As Is Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Outdated and aged traditions,
Are much like diets...
People are reluctant to realize,
Time has identified them...
In need of drastic change.
With each step taken to move ahead.
Yesterdays, although loved to reminisce,
Eventually have to be let go.
To be replaced for what it is that exists.
Nothing stays to remain as is to sit.

Like a child attending school for the first time,
Leaving behind what is comfortable...
Is a slow process to overcome,
A doing that has served a purpose done.
Such as beliefs to teach what is to learn,
Has to be left to expect they can not be kept...
If steps are to be taken to move forward,
To allow that which follows and comes next.
With it to understand...
No one blessed to live life to experience,
Does this to do without having regrets.