we make them up all the time. stories about life, individual, collective, in general. how life started. how it evolved. how our own lives progressed and what it means. cast a narration onto a few data points. poof, a story.
make up the rest of the story, autocomplete. if it went like this, it may continue like that. make up the future. predict it. try to make it happen. prophesize. force these prophecies into reality. make it all more and more elaborate.
stories are ideas, memes. memes are spread, confronted. we carry them and they depend on us to realize themselves.
longing for what came before
warm memories collected
preserved in lore
resurrected
look out an autumn window
stop for a second
see what is reckoned
here in this verse:
ah, what I would give
to be there and then again