Orbital

part 14

Could I tick
each heartbeat passing
between beginning and the end
or ponder at what position I am now placed
within that finite path...

By what
measures as they vanish past
do I count the first and guess the last
which will transport us all.

Journeys end:

arrival at a new departure
like a pause along the coastal path
to view the way the time has passed
along the crumbling slate-cliffed shore

which
one day lay under the sea
as all land lay some time
before
I came into this place.

I
stop and think of how
the sea wind blows across my face...
 

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