So many days,

succeeding one another in marchlike
succession. But it’s all accidental—
the way the sun and earth
happen to behave. Nothing
at all foundational!

But here you encounter tasks
related to events occupying
stations in time. You leave your mark
on them, but thereafter
they can never change.

They remain as signposts,
significant in memory and in imprinted
present and future behavior.
But you come up against
giants you have to kill, villages

you have to protect.

How you perform may be remembered or
not remembered, may be falsified
and lied about. But its truth
will always belong to you.