Epictetus & Irreversibility - Solefald

{Epictetus, freed slave

Turned stoic thinker

Expelled from Rome

For seeking virtue and wisdom

In Nature, the city of gods

He found his destiny

In simplicity and dignity}

What do I care about you, when all must die

What does your face mean to me, When

All my eyes can seize, must die

What is your warmth to me, it will not last

What about your hair, can it do What the atoms will, last

What is music, a drug forever falling

What do you care about words, as you do What the bombs keep doing, fall

What do I think of you, Amor, when all must die

What are your smiling winds to me All their beauty and grace must die