Green Light

Gatsby believed in the green light,
the magic promise of the future.
He didn't realize that as we reach forward towards the dream,
it moves ever further away from us.
We press on, like boats against the current,
and all the time we are carried back into the past.
 
Image: Machii Kenichi
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald, "THE GREAT GATSBY"

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