But for a moment, I was swept
backwards, to days long gone.
Taken there through visions
of things left behind
to weather and wear
in their place, last left.
A testament
to all that was,
and how all came to now be,
by roughened hands
which gentled fields
and tamed the weeds of ages.
Useless now?
'Nay' say I-
for it be a strong reminder,
that all which has passed before,
can always be remembered,
as what is yet to come.
So I stood there,
in a soft mezmerized,
and calming state,
as I became solidly one,
with what had already passed my years-
...and time stood silently still.