Tonian

Most life left no trace.
Most lives will leave none,

Even if their net
Data doesn’t die.

Live with that in mind.
Fate is erasure

For most adventures,
Although, lottery

Players every one,
Imaginations

Dwell on becoming
Interesting fossils

Future selves ponder.
In the Tonian,

Eukaryotic life
Got complicated

As oxygen rose,
And then exploded

After the boring
Billion years before,

But speculation
And conjecture still

Haunt the scrutiny
Of leftover stones.

Most lives leave no trace,
Just sheets of blank space.