The past casts light as a faint star on the edge of space Reaching from the depths of depthless black The Caretaker sifts fingers between the soot It’s my fault, He says. And molecules can’t come back It’s madness The cobbler draws his eyepiece, selects a tack History is a sheath of imagination tucked at the seams Their words the clack of the planets on their tracks Heaven is the never we forever grieve