Think of What Your Ancestors Haven’t Lived to See

Systems that evolve without collapsing
Are the only systems left, given change,

But given change, no system won’t collapse
Eventually. Thus, death. No matter

When you live or in what kind of system,
You only know the years you lived in it.

The system that doesn’t collapse goes on
Evolving, and what’s left of when you were

Are only the fossils of your system,
Possibly including a bit of you,

But likely not, likely nothing of you,
As the system was when you were in it.