Eternal Mindset

By Abi Davis

Eternity is silk in the mind,

slippery and endless-

like soft, thin thread wrapped

around the Earth

until it is swallowed up.

Eternity bends,

expanding to the extent that

we can manage to understand it-

a mansion to the young, a city block to adults,

a continent to the old.

Eternity is fickle,

shifting as soon as we have a hold on it-

revealing a wrinkle never noticed before,

crow’s feet and weathered palms,

there is beauty in its aging.

Eternity is apart from us,

existing in a realm we have never visited,

with a language that sounds like wildfire

lapping at the edges of a calm, cool sea-

burning without end.

Eternity is a promise made,

every day, by a mother

that one day it’ll make sense,

one day our hummingbird hearts

will start to sing.