Don’t look forward

Look right here

There is nothing for you

Beyond this moment

Nothing more

This is it

The source of your troubles

And longing

And lamenting

Is all in the future

Causing you to think

There is more then

That is not now

The future

Makes you feel

Like you’re missing something

You must be

If there is more to come

Then you were missing it before

You must have been

But don’t be worried

Don’t let the future trick you

Focus here and now

Start with the senses

What do you see

What do you hear

What do you feel

Focus all of your attention

On the senses

What picture of the present

Are they painting for you

What song of the present

Are they singing

Your senses of the present

Are gold

Compared to copper imagination

Of any future

Not yet come to pass

For the body

But only for the mind

As some figment

Focus here

Breathe it in

Do not worry

Let go of the need to plan

To prepare

The future is now

It is part of the nature of now

To become the future

So if you want to prepare

Focus here