This Moment Now Past

This moment present its gift to receive
Borne by what you choose to perceive

Harken well this moment now past
Within a memory held, a memory cast

And upon its thought and vision held clear
The moment once gone is again once near.

Rose Marie Raccioppi



The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dalí, 1931, oil on canvas, 9.4 × 13 in
Museum of Modern Art, New York City