"Andrew On Prostitutes" 
by Gibran Khalil Gibran 

YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

I said to my friend, "You see her leaning upon the arm of that man. It was but yesterday
that she leaned thus upon my arm." And my friend said, "And tomorrow she will lean
upon mine." I said, "Behold her sitting close at his side. It was but yesterday she sat
close beside me." And he answered, "Tomorrow she will sit beside me." 

I said, "See, she drinks wine from his cup, and yesterday she drank from mine." And he
said, "Tomorrow, from my cup." 

Then I said, "See how she gazes at him with love, and with yielding eyes. Yesterday she
gazed thus upon me." 
And my friend said, "It will be upon me she gazes tomorrow." I said, "Do you not hear
her now murmuring songs of love into his ears? Those very songs of love she murmured
but yesterday into my ears." And my friend said, "And tomorrow she will murmur them
in mine." 

I said, "Why see, she is embracing him. It was but yesterday that she embraced me."
And my friend said, "She will embrace me tomorrow." Then I said, "What a strange
woman." But he answered, "She is like unto life, possessed by all men; and like death,
she conquers all men; and like eternity, she enfolds all men."