ATOMS AND TIME
Richard Grove
I will only too soon return
these few borrowed atoms to you
mother earth.
I hope you don't mind my
staying alive just a bit longer to use them.
The longer the better.
Am I to be considered by you
simply a parcel of borrowed atoms?
held together by principles of matter
by which I am mixed?
Not a single ion has gone to waist you know.
Please do not be in such a hurry to redistribute them
over this earth
back into the cosmose.
Do not force me too soon to be
subject to the withers of time.
