I Must Be

Where has my tomorrow gone,

And what has happened to today,

Silent is the telephone,

Alone I ply my destined way.

Yesterday is but a dream

The future too far to contemplate,

My life a leaf on fate's swift stream,

The present already is too late.

So I shall live the moment through

Nor count the hours passing by,

And all my thoughts shall be of you

Each second live but live to die

To all the past, for I must be

Other than what now I see.