Loss is as close to permanence as the world gets,
The only permanence any aspect of the world attains,
And we are at a loss to say whether a world of change,
A changing world, ever could be any other way.
Yes, loss possesses its own illusions. Yes, lost
Phenomena are sometimes found again, albeit
Never once found the same. But the richest fossil digs,
The careful temple excavations, the closely monitored
Body farms inevitably outline absences, never
To be present again. Briefly here and gone forever
Goes a favorite human axiom, especially beloved
In verse. Consider however, the inverse implications.
If what has been can never be as was again
Then whatever is no longer has thus converted
Brevity into eternity, as only the have been
Can be promised never to be briefly here again.
What hasn’t been might never be, but what has been
Will never be again and therefore will forever have been.
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