Why Should We Care that We Must Lose the Past?

Music: Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus 2. By J.S. Bach. Sequencer unknown. Modified by David Grossman.

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Why should we care that we must lose the past? There are millennia we'll never know. Nor can a truth in full regalia last Longer than it takes the wind to blow. Of course, there are the many things we learn, Not to speak of curiosity; But neither motivation makes us burn With sacred lust at each discovery. We feel there is a holiness in things That witness bear to truth. For we, too, bear Witness to the miracle that sings Through every sense the wonder that it's there. Sojourners all, we hold each moment dear, Moved to honor all who have been here.