"Time and Space" Written 1980

Look ye upon this, both Time and Space

how low we are to the earth, whenst

upon thy visage, ancient face

I gaze in wonderment, close to grace -

and try to unravel the secret, which is me,

and from whenst I came to be.

How can I but answer, whereupon I am asked,

that I am the sum total

of all that is yet to come,

and all that has passed.

For what, then, can be the present,

whether living fast or dying slow,

but the embodiment of what has just occured

and that which has yet its face to show.

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