The world has changed from yesterday,
it got transformed,
it moved away,
it went astray,
it moved adrift
along a strident Doppler shift.
It bested me
and went ahead.
I was too slow for it to wait.
It didn’t know it was my ride,
or felt my spurs
dig in its side,
it missed my soft voice
in its head,
it didn’t notice that I led.
It ran its course
and fizzled out
and a new world came from behind
which overtook it while it laughed
and left it choking
on its dust,
and I jumped on the better steer.
Yesterday’s gone
but I’m still here.
