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)

Time Puzzler

What is already
What it is not yet?
(Hint: not the Future Past)
The meta-set which includes the series aggregate
Of all Time points – past, present, future – would be that
Whose singular entirety is already
What its composite parts are not yet.

(In the end, there is no after.)

G.Hall (2003)
p.235
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY
ON PARADOXISM
FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE
(editor)