Classic Poem

If you look at the surface of the world,
You'll see our colored footprints on it,
Yours light and brightly colored, mine deeper,
Printed indelibly so they shine in the dark
And are plainly visible from space vehicles:

Little footprints starting at different places
And from slightly different points of time,
Then growing and tracing separate patterns
In a small section of the same hemisphere
For a large fraction of the same century

But meeting suddenly both in time and place
And from then and there always near each other
Weaving through streets and fields and woods
Backwards and forwards in dotted colored lines
In and out of each other till today

Then plaiting and braiding their twin threads
In a complex tangle of directions
Over years and countries of the globe
To fashion step by step the intricacy
Of their own unravellable knot without ends.











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