Hey Neg,
I'm glad you found this enjoyable and thought provoking. I'm always amazed at how contests seem to draw the creativity out of me. Why can't I just wake up in the morning and go "I'm going to write something fascinating today?"
There was once a short lived TV series called "Finder of Lost Loves." I think it is a theme that inevitably recurs to many of us from time to time.
I have come to believe that we created persons have a virtually unlimited emotional capacity to love and be loved, but what we lack is time and resources to love in the practical, physical and economic actions implied by that verb.
Eternity is effectively the solution to everything, although the concept presents a perpetual struggle for my imagination to grasp how it will actually play out. I continue to wrestle mightily with the practical problem of imagining how to write fiction with a compelling story arc about absolutely untroubled and beneficent people living in an utterly unsullied environment. It's that problem you were kind enough to discuss with me once on Discord some time ago.
Thanks for your very thoughtful comment. :D
I'd love to hear "the other way" that you might have taken this poem...
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