The Ropes of Time

I stand peering into an endless void

Watching the strands of space

And time as they escape me,

Tethered to a boundless koi,

Moving our universe behind it

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It swims forwards

In a sea of infinite

Stars and galaxies,

Joining its brethren,

Each towing their own universes behind them.

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I try to follow them.

But I am trapped,

Tied to the ropes of time,

Binding me to the anchor of now,

Sinking further and further into the present

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This I can only see through my omniscient soul.

The stars, the galaxies, the universes,

The infinity and the void.

But I am forever trapped, in a mortal shell;

Forever confined, in a grain of sand, buried in an infinite beach.

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One step away

An infinite sea,

But I am a mere speck of dust among trillions more,

Forever still like those before.

Forever bound by the here and now.

Forever tethered by the ropes of time.