What You Cannot See

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Story: What You Cannot See
Characters: Kirana


sometimes, you ponder the eternity
that you cannot see, because it's over.
you are borne on the winds of time,
seeing forward, always forward,
but never looking back.

the ocean holds those secrets, maybe--
water-seers or earth-seers know them.
there are other seers, right?
you can't possibly be the only one,
the only one untethered in the sands.

you know there are things buried in the ocean,
maybe even in the desert, or so the stories say.
things that are older than recorded history
maybe even older than humanity,
but you can't see any of that.

it feels unreal, the past.
it's not that you lose your present--
you know how to hold your present--
but looking back, looking back is
it's hard, when you have to live

in the future. always in the future.
all you have is the future,
and your present, but never,
never looking back into what built it,
never unburying its foundations.

and how can you understand it?
how can you possibly interpret
everything you see, everything you know
without knowing where it comes from,
without holding the past?

you cradle the future in your hands
and you know you use it well,
and you hold onto your present
because you know you need it
but it scares you, that you cannot hold the past.