FOR YOU ARE ALL TRANSIENT

Seek comfort, now, in the

depths of the winter night's sky,

when the clouds and the Moon

don't chaperone the cold beauty

of the distant and remembered stars;

you stand here, in their cool presence,

like you stood those decades ago, on

this same spot, with a long dead

dog, more interested in the scents

on the snow than in the sparks

set in the firmament. Seek

comfort, for soon you, too, are

gone; gone like the beloved dog

and the aged man who sat in light

behind those now dark windows.

Soon there will be just the stars

and the landscape, whispering.

Yet even the stars die, and

planets burn to a cinder, in

their own torment of mortality.

For you are all transient.

15.12.2022

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