How What Is Gets Swamped by What You Did

Events make the facts events subtract.
Events can only accumulate,
But the sum of existence is fixed.

Facts wink in and out of existence,
Never any more empty or full,
Despite the relentless addition

Of ineliminable events
That add and subtract, subtract and add
Those doomed, infinitesimal facts.

So that’s that. What’s happened can never
Be unhappened, no fact can ever
Last, but the sum total stays exact.

That’s why you’re more and more what’s happened
And less and less what’s happened has left.