Moments aren't all there is
to time.
One doesn't travel everywhere by sea.
Stories of days past and futures planned
Have made of time a journey over land,
Epic of plains crossed and mountains climbed.
Retain then, please, both tropes within your mind,
That one the other's firmanent might be.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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