Tomorrow's Gone

By Philip Fracassi

Collected over the span of a decade, these poems reveal the inner-musings of a man reflecting on issues of love and hate, of beauty, and despair, ---when the nights are fast, the days are long, and tomorrow's gone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hybrid Sequence Media
• Release date: Oct 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781087910383

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A Quick Note on my Mental State

Alcoholic

stupor…maybe.

I believe in a god, but today

it’s you, who

will help keep it together.

Here You Are

Causality is the frontispiece of today

because you have gotten somewhere

not many people get to (as easily)

due, mainly, to a series of events

outside the realm of fate, supposedly.

So today you can look backward

and get a clear sense of what is now.

And remember sometimes that cause

does not have an effect, but

sometimes cause becomes fate,

ergo where you are

and where you are going to be.

And in the dark nights ahead

while drifting through

recollections of the past and

delicate dreams of tomorrow,

you can think of warm skin and laughter

and the thrill of seeing something

you want so badly and know,

that after much cause and effect

(and a little favor of fate),

you will have it.

And here you are.

Over Wine

Some say discretion

is the latter part

of your stout valor;

tell me,

    will you hold