All Our Times Have Come — a sonnet by a Faust

 

All Our Times Have Come

Or, As Do The Wind & The Sun & The Rain

(A Banishing Prefatory To Invocation)

dedicated to Grim Goblin Jack by a female Faust

Where there is no Meeting OfThe Minds

There — can be — no Contract:

Like this amiss, if true, reminds

Respect enables us retract

But even had I Standing, where would find I the Court,

What Arbitration binding to adjudicate aright?

However honest the Discovery was claiméd by report

We are still only just us here, both dreaming in this Night  

If one is made a Seeing Thing,  strong to learn & grow

If not by leaps & bounds, enough exceeding show

Would you promise to remember what we do & do not know

To those who having read were led & followéd?  Are you Friend or are you Foe?

By all upon in & under the Earth or its Water, its Fire or Air

Let us create for us a Now for which we cannot yet but Care.