The Past Has

The past has gone the future is ahead though today is all that does matter And most in time do show their age and grow a little fatter We learn as we live it is said though this may be worth debating For some learn little if anything at all a fact that is worth stating Most people learn as they live but there is always an exception Some are not very good at all when it comes to self reflection Why this should be not for me to say since others than me do know better There is a difference between a farm dog and a pointer or a setter That we should learn from life as we live ought to go without saying But i am one who ought not to be talking since with rhyme words i keep on playing When some friends of mine out of concern for me tell me i ought to give it away Since for it i never receive any money as a reward for doing it in pay The now is what matters since the past is behind us and the future ahead And at the stroke of midnight a new day born and today will be dead.