Four and eighty years
Or three and ninety
Or two and seventy
A human’s allotted time
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.