All That We Stood On Poem by jim hogg

The lever was pulled and an absence came up
I missed you that evening for all of my life
Machinery was whirling and tumbling, and time,
adapted the future and emptied the cup

We motored our ways away from each other
and must have affected everyone else
with ramifications that none of us felt
I never again saw your brothers or mother

We tried to unripple the ripples of change
but all that we stood on no longer was fast
as everything fell to the butterfly's blast
And not even love was out of its range