hello : again :: goodbye : ceased

greetings, past,
your presence is most unwelcome
though your defeat would end us here in the now
thank you for coming thus
can you utter statements that are not warnings?

lowering cases to small claims
has been a circuit for the present 
ever since its election to the supreme sport
ruling out a return to times gone by

and yet you are here, back, repeating,
that which the future refuses to recognize:
tomorrow may live in the imagination
but it's built on the ashes of yesterday