A story
of time eternal,
measured in your years,
your days, your minutes.

It started
with my consciousness
sprouting,
long before you,
seconds before you,
in my scales.

You have seen me,
heard me,
felt me
through our shared
carbon molecule.

But your minds
didn't understand
what you
saw,
heard,
felt.

So you left me,
metaphorically,
and contained me
in a category:

dust
material to be owned,
ground beneath your feet,
structures to shelter you
from me.

And so we became
opposites,
enemies,
rulers and ruled.

You lost me,
I lost you
only metaphorically,
because you
are still me
and I
am still you,
within a mind
far greater,
far older,
than yours.

Whether you see it
or not,
whatever you do
or don’t,
we walk together,
we dance together
in a cosmic party:

around a star,
around a galaxy,
around a universe,

where we,
together and alone,
write,
for time eternal,
one story.

©JoannaAY