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After the lockdown begins

[soulsrob]

01
Is there another world for this frail dust
To warm with life and be itself again?
Something about me daily speaks there must,
And why should instinct nourish hopes in vain?

02
‘Tis nature’s prophesy that such will be,
And everything seems struggling to explain
The close sealed volume of its mystery.
Time wandering onward keeps its usual pace
As seeming anxious of eternity,

03
To meet that calm and find a resting place.
E’en the small violet feels a future power
And waits each year renewing blooms to bring,
And surely man is no inferior flower
To die unworthy of a second spring?

[strategicnaps]

Did you write that, miss?

[soulsrob]

It's from a poet named John Clare. It's called "The Instinct of Hope." Do you like it?

[strategicnaps]

I do! Is this an English poem?

I don't know much about poetry, but my son did like them!

[soulsrob]

It is! I love poetry, I've memorized quite a bit.

[Wait hold on.]

Your son??

[strategicnaps]

Mhm! My son. He's only six now, but he definitely reads a lot!

Of course, he has to take after a genius like me.

[this guy has a fucking son]

[soulsrob]

I see! How wonderful! He sounds darling, I can't imagine how you must feel being separated from him. I wonder if they'll let us send messages to the people back home some time.

[strategicnaps]

[...well Hanbei would probably never see him again anyway even if he wasn't recruited

so]

Well, we're here to protect our planets, right?

Though that would be a nice reward! But I don't think we'll be allowed to tell them where we are.

[soulsrob]

It's a good thing my two friends back home probably already figured it out. I mean, not specifically, but what happened. I can't imagine what story they've told father to explain why I disappeared.

[strategicnaps]

I think the CDC have power over time, though. Maybe they'll send us right back to when we left, so no one will notice we were gone.

But then we probably can't write letters.

[soulsrob]

Over TIME? I wonder if they have any weaknesses. That sounds like a terribly large thing to control!

[strategicnaps]

01
Mhm! I've met several people who know their friends come from different points in time- so they can definitely travel back between the 'future' and the 'past'.

02
What even counts as the future and the past anymore? This is all so confusing.