These verbs* are active
in the present, past, and future:
Burst Thrust
Cast Cost
Cut Shut
Hit Quit
Spread
Let Set
You hurt me yesterday
and today and tomorrow's
hurt will feel the same..
Today and yesterday
You spread a lie
And let me down.
The hurt lasts a long, long time.
*There is a small set of verbs in English that have the same form in the present, past, and future, e.g.,
Yesterday I quit.
Today I quit again.
Tomorrow I will quit
and quit and quit
and quit again
until the sun
no longer shines.
and the moon is
full and bright.
Here are a few more verbs that are spelled the same in the present and past tense: beat, bid, fit, put, read, slid, slit, spit, and compounds of cast, set, fit, and let, e.g., recast, miscast, broadcast, reset, offset, upset, retrofit, sublet.
I love these verbs because they remind me that the past is never really past. Of course, I am using my poetic license.