Four and eighty years

Or three and ninety

Or two and seventy

A human’s allotted time

To roam this place.

Deftly delineated

Laid in stone

A brief flash

Inconsequential

Against a universe

Allotted years in billions or more.

But to the human

This is the universe

Four and eighty years or three and ninety or two and seventy

Sharply defined

Inviolable

A beginning and end

Comprising moments

Never ending.

A bounded eternity.