As of now

We were never children,
but there were children who were once us,
with a wonder of the world
that outgrew us before we realised
it was gone.

But we grew anyway and
suddenly everything around us moved -
except they no longer moved around us,
the planets orbited the sun
and we felt smaller than we used to.

Now we are what we've never been before -
the people standing on the mountaintop
overlooking time,
trying to find their place in history, their
piece of puzzle in the 'big picture',
while everything is still growing,
still in fluid and motion,
before everything is still,
and still less than they
had hoped for.