past it

You know you're past it
when you start to daydream
fantasize about yourself
in the past tense. Of

times back when you knew
you were never going do that
anyway, but you still could.

You could daydream, but
all your old favorites
have veered off to
impossibility, and

lost their sparkle
and draw. So what now,
pal?

You have to break your horizons
wide and find things you're still
never going to do anyway, but

anyway, you still could. Then
you see, you find, you realize

you were never past it. In fact,
it was always in the other direction.