What Came First?

If, in the Present,
I attribute the cause of the Present
To an earlier Past...
Then is the Past
The result of the Present?

And if a parent is closer
To the beginning of time,
Why do we say that
The parent is older than the child?

G.Hall (2003)
p.234
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY
ON PARADOXISM
FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE
(editor)