Before Us Is Nothing,
Neither Future nor Past
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Before us is nothing, neither future nor
past.
One's eager limbs can stretch only so far.
Nor can we become
too much more than we are:
Numinous, resplendent, unlikely to
last.
In every moment we are all we can be,
Existence's essence can
be nothing less,
All rapidly burning towards nothingness,
Nanothings
shining on some starlit sea.
Do we know we are stars, seaweed,
galaxies, quarks,
For eons or seconds, exactly the same,
Relative
twists in the web of space-time?
All is. The same is. All is the
same,
No cosmic cloud less a wonder than slime.
Kansas or Oz, Toto
still barks.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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