Live Off Embers

We live off the embers

of something
so much bigger
and denser than now.

Something almost gone,
yet still so very beautiful,

powerful.

Have you ever seen the stars.

So the reasons
we have any of this, believe me,
are in the power
still left in the smallest sparks.

Just look up,
have you ever seen the stars?

and wondered...

Look at your next clear night
up and down and up.
Mostly up.

Embers
all embers
of something so much bigger,

and yet still enough
to lead us round and
round water or soil
in light enough to see.

We live
live off embers.
of oh so much more
than we will ever be

But what we do with this
is more than the brighter beginning still

We live
live off embers.

Off the bits we can handle
not the truth that'd kill us.

We live
on the edge of what used to..

and begin
a new potential.

Like flies
on an old pie
but on the universe's more pristine.

Yet scavengers all the same,
we resourceful
become.

We become.
and whats left
will be the fodder
for the next.

We become,
but hopefully
are not the last.

We become.
but what is
still
to
be
still to
to be.