IN THEIR ENDLESS MOMENTS

We feel we will live

forever, the universe

beginning with our birth

for us, but for the timeless

universe we are already

dead, right there with

Lucy and Turkana Boy,

Gilgamesh and Enheduanna,

Hatsepshut and Ramses the Great,

Julius Caesar and Justinian,

Erik the Red and Columbus,

the Sun King Louis and Napoleon -

I could go on,

but you know

what I mean, all the great

names and the unknown ones,

those who covered the walls of caves

with paintings

and built the first skyscrapers at Chicago,

those whose bones they still dig up

at the Western Front battlefields,

they are as alive

and dead as we are,

in their endless moments

in this timeless universe.

20.05.2025

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