Karmancer on Nostr: I have lots of thoughts but dwindling time for tonight's Nostr-ations so instead have ...

I have lots of thoughts but dwindling time for tonight's Nostr-ations so instead have a poem and a placeholder for me to insert my own thoughts on the topics and questions you've raised in the future:

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 't is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.

by Emily Dickinson