Time-Travel

He had seen it in a movie
Where they’d travelled to the past,
Where they’d travelled to the future --
If not faster, just as fast

That journey did seem thrilling
But his journey was thrilling enough
In case asked to present a comparison
Such a comparison: he’d find it tough

We don’t get preferred adjectives
But if he got one, it’d be -- “uncouth”
However, he wasn’t that mannerless,
As his journey was relatively smooth

He had a mountain to climb
And it was a difficult summit
But he seemed to progress easily
As he never really worried about it

But the mind owns nuclear weapons
And it’s difficult to escape the blast
He somehow tumbled in a chasm then
Lost himself and became an outcast

The past made him feel guilty
The future got him shit scared
Lying lifeless in that dark chasm, he
Went everywhere, but reached nowhere

As his mind sent him to the future
He couldn’t stop, and it was a losing battle
When his mind sent him to the past
He understood the semantics of time-travel

Time-travel draining all the energy
How would he find the strength to fight
But as he decided to embrace himself
He did find a luminous prospect of light

With the jilted mouse now warmly held
Tranquility was located by its cursor
And the time-travel this time around was
Learning from past and growing into the future