Dust, Never a Need for History

The last time I saw you, you had youth on your side.

Thirty-five years have passed since then. I am still

here, but now in my place of old age, and my how

things have changed. I do occasionally wonder what

has become of you? Time has a way of trailing behind

it a history, even if not considered important enough to

record. Ever wonder who decides these things anyway,

young and vibrantly alive one day, and gone the next?

Dust, however, remains perpetually the same. Perhaps

that is why dust appears frequently in the bible and in

poetry. Dust has no need for either history, a date or a

name; forever dust remains the same. There, I have said

it. And now on the record, I am done.

Chris Hanch 12-10-17