A life is in the middle

Shadows either side 

In the aeons, before and after

Where nothing happens

In the past we were the future 

In the future We’ll be the past

 

Peering forward, peering back

Shadowy forms drift in and out of sight

The shadow will fade

In a hundred years We’ll be a distant smudge 

On some ones subconscious memory

 

But reaching forward there are generations

Unknown to us, struggling through the dust

Of a brief planetary visit

Before their shadow, ascends to the ether,

Hanging as cloaks engulfing the stars.

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