A symbol

A bottle

Interested no longer in what has gone,
What has gone?

Gleams in the sun that beats through the thick dust,
The bottle is the only thing that shines

Interested now in what is to come,
What will have gone,
What is going?

The ground is dust,
The air is dust,
The sun illuminates the dust,

Interested in maintaining our history,
Preserving our perceived importance,
In doing so,
Forget, so as to secure memories.

The bottle is not dust,
Everything else is dust

Interested in ourselves,
Interested in nothing,
No thing of interest
That will interest us enough
To avert our attention
From inevitability.

A bottle
Gleams in the sun that beats through the thick dust,
The bottle is the only thing that shines,
The ground is dust,
The air is dust,
The sun illuminates the dust,
The bottle is not dust,
Everything else is dust.