It’s Time Behind

The Earth will forget us;
    yet the stars will speak
    our last will
    and we shall be.

Leave—
    their time sings
    the absence of being here,
    belonging to no one;
    where we cannot be
    unless you leave
    all you’ve ever seen
    or ever been.
It’s too late to fall
    from the stars
    to the ancient world.
From the ether, afar,
    you will see two spirals collide,
    dancing through endless eternities,
    making new stars
    in the briefness of time.
On Earth, there will be
    constellations’s dreams
    never grazing the real stars,
    never knowing how to wake them.
Yet in the universe,
    in all that we can create,
    there are touches,
    blows, and wounds;
    but dreams lie elsewhere,
    in a distant memory of the sea:
    a story without a present.
That's why
    you cannot write in the stars
    without ever reaching them,
    and that's why,
    once you begin
    to rise above every sea,
    you must leave
    the ancient time behind.

—It’s time
    —today behind.