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Originally Posted by paleshadow
To clear it up, changing tense is when you switch between past, present, and future: I went, I will go, I have gone.
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I was thinking about this as I was posting in the
Storms thread. I think it's really powerful when she says "we were frail" and also says "save us." It suggests that the weakness and susceptibility that defined and broke them then, resulted in damage that lives on today. In youth, you can commit one trespass that will haunt you well into middle age. Careless steps become permanent. It's only in the fullness of time that you realize what "irrevocable" means.
We were frail
then; save us
now. Past is present. I absolutely love it.
Michele