This is the very first, from January 4, 1982 -- long before blogs, before cell phones, before I had email, or even a computer. I was fighting sadness:
There are only nows,
spanning eternity end to end,
like points in a line, infinite,
yet each in strident isolation.
I am sick of whys.
Whys stink of pain.
Give me distraction: the eternal present.
The kingdom of contentment is "NOW."
Life needs no reason.
Life is reason enough.
-- Mad Mar (Mistryel) Walker