As far away as we
All are
From where we once stood
not long ago
relative
to what sticks and what flies off
Spinning
as we are
oblivious to this
Constant.
Nothing
stays,
nothing is graspable
for one life-
time-
Goes fast and slow
relative
to how our time
is-
perceived.
And still
try we must
to hold on
centripetally
where we now
understand.
Painting by Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans, 'At the Spinning wheel' c. 1845 in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
