don't worry about tomorrow

"As I Walked Out One Evening" is a poem about the fate of love. Although love is said to never die, we see how time takes all living things eventually. Auden's subtly tells of human mortality when he describes "The crowds upon the pavements/were fields of harvest wheat". Reaped wheat requires a reaper, something that can be compared to Death. The poem contains three speakers: the narrator, the lover, and Time. The lover brings some happiness to the poem by his words to his love "Love has no ending." We hope this, but we later see in the poem that Time is always watching us and breathing down our necks. The lines "O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time" and "Time watches from the shadow And coughs when you would kiss" show the ever presence of Time. The poem becomes darker and tells how life aging is inevitable and horrid: "In headaches and in worry/Vaguely life leaks away,/And Time will have his fancy/ Tomorrow or today." The tone takes another turn, one less threatening. Auden reminds the reader that life and death are beyond our control, and life itself is a blessing we should cherish. Our lives our broken because we are imperfect and have "crooked hearts". But we should still love each other, despite our crooked hearts, because God can fix us if we trust Him. Time is only in His control, and we should not worry about the future, but be concerned with what today holds.