Lifetimes, Decending

let's live a lifetime, darling
here and now
and when that's not enough
go back and do it again
not just back to now
but further still,
through the years of childhood,
and backwards through the decades
let's go to Woodstock together,
and to a sock-hop
and a swing dance in the roaring twenties
back through centuries
we'll hobnob with royalty and poets
and, in between, escape to a quiet life in the country
comfortable, but unobtrusive
front row tickets to Shakespeare and Beethoven
watch the renaissance blossom around us
hide away together to pass the dark ages
meet emperors and heroes
live, as the pyramids rise on the horizon
and as they dwindle back to piles of sand
go all the way back to Eden together
and when that isn't enough, we'll go forward again