Nothing But Now

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June 16th 2012

(A poem scribbled together during an afternoon of rum drinking in the sun in Broome...)




For gold will turn to dust


and steel to rust


Hearts are bound to stop


And as memories are forgot


The future will surely fade


Only this moment hold its value


As this moment is all Time lends us


And Time is the ruler of all things


He will see every King fall


and every hero die.


In the shadow of the world


and measured against eternity


Nothing can maintain


Nothing but Now.



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Sean Collins
I left for what was intended to be a year of travelling in October 2010. After a few months on my way I decided that one year was nowhere near enough so abandoned my plans to return home and instead started bloating my mind with ideas, designs and places to go. I spent six weeks in South East Asia travelling around Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam before flying to New Zealand where I spent the majority of my seven weeks in Mount Maunganui volunteering on a dolphin research project where my days were spent out on a small boat tracking and studying dolphins and orcas. I still feel very privilig... full info
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