Arbiter's Grounds

you were born; and then i was
never mind chronology
your eyes weren't old, as you now call them
and mine
well i grew into them
looking at you aged me so
you never looked at the same thing
it was as if you were searching for something
i wish, still, that i had told you there was simply nothing to find

maybe you realized how brief your time was to be
and how vast the world was becoming
for you left to search for nothing in other places
there are infinite doors to be opened, after all
it could be that you never saw the defeat in that

we all did
rather, i did
there is no one else here
only space
and time

now i know what you were searching for
hopefully you realize that you already found it
the moment you opened your first door