We are only passing by.

©fourteenth

Looking down

lines of light reflecting;

little fish around my feet

Fish, light, cool sea-surface--

We are only passing by. We were never really here.

To see in every day and year a symbol of all the days of man

rock cliff reed    ©fourteenth

To see in every day and year a symbol
of all the days of man and his years,
and convert the outrage of the years
into a music, a sound, and a symbol.

Jorge Luis Borges from The Art of Poetry