Life in Three Dimensions

Fortune has bestowed on me

The very gift that is to be

For all that was to come before

To open this unlikely door

To a world of worlds

With ever more to see

Than any ancestors could

Have surely every dreamed

Now it seems I'll stick around

As long as my foresight allows

Nature willing, ample time

Is there a reason I might find?

To have been at all

Other than to see

How a giant falls from

What it surely should have been

I've been living upon this soil now for a while

With an ever lesser sense of where I came from

Having broken the chains

With a hand on the reigns

Of a steed that's picking up some speed

And approaching a fork in the road

Remind me to breathe

Though the road I've come from seems it's drenched in blood

And it is though I've got miles still yet to travel

Think of what I can do, I can walk on the moon

The beginnings of a legacy

Should I find yet a reason to be

Remind to breathe

I've been picking up and putting down

What I already knew

But it seems to me unfamiliar

In shape and in hue

I've been stripped of all the words that otherwise

Might have been use

For a life at its end

But with as much as ever to lose

All these moments I'm keeping in store

For the days when I can't be myself anymore

And if memory fades as my own might as well

I'll at least have been cast upon by this spell

Is it enough to know that I was here a while

To see you were born

Then I blink, you grow, you're here, I'm gone

The story goes on

And still the chance of being here at all

Remains to be slim

For every life on this planet

There's a hundred have already lived

All these moments I'm keeping in store

For the days when I can't be myself anymore