An Eye ...

looking out
liquid
amber
old
ancient.

What do you know?
What have you seen?
What can you tell us
of what will come?

The molecules in you,
how old are they
and where have they been?
How long lay they in the dirt
what water did you drink
what sustenance and from whence did it come?
What land, what time, what space?

What stardust?
What days and nights?
How many snows?
How many rains?
What stars did you see?
What was the moon like?

Did you know people?
What language
What languagES?
Did children sit at your roots?
Did they carry your seeds?
Or was it a bird
or a squirrel
or a mouse?
maybe a fox, a wolf, a deer?
maybe something we do not know or cannot imagine?

Will you remember me?