“Life is only a flicker of melted ice.”
  ~~Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know

But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet 
And voices at the door”
  ~~J.R.R. Tolkien