We name the stages of our very human ages:
Epochs. Eras. Periods. Phases. ਯੁੱਗ.
The Stone Age. The Iron Age. The Ice Age.
The Dark Ages. The Age of Enlightenment.
The Middle Ages. How did they know?
To locate time in the middle,
you have to know two things:
the beginning and end.
Does every age feel like the final stage?
I was born in the epoch called: “Before It’s Too Late.”
Will I die in the epoch called: “It’s Too Late?”
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ਯੁੱਗ = ‘yuga’ – Punjabi – an epoch in Hindu cosmology