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Thursday 15 September 2016

From The Frozen Tome


Cast now your net and 
Cast it wide, for 
In its shadow 
You must hide
Or you'll be caught 
In the ebbing tide
Of Time.
It rushes by
Erasing traces, prints
And such, in causal
Chains formed of 
Foolish trust that
Man could lay
By will alone
Some makers mark 
In steel or stone
To outlast his 
Own weak, sun
Bleached bones,
Foreseeing not 
That Time's backwash
Would wipe both the
Maker and the 
Made and so
Eternally disguise
That Man ever was
Along with 
All the clues
As to his fate
Amongst all the rest 
That
Time's tossed 
As waste.…

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