Time like a mist

Upon awakening I looked into the darkness and opened my senses to the world,…
the light just beyond my chamber was bright but littered with the dust of men; each mote a volume of information.

I could taste and smell the essence of the life teeming over the surface of the planet, as well as the mouldering of those below.

Referencing the planets and their courses I derived the era, and sadly shook my head at the data I was collecting ; these creatures while brimming with the potential to become masters of the universe seemed to have advanced no further than the last awakening,… still mired in petty greed and false pride they tumbled along full of the bile of self importance while perpetually flagellating deity and device as the answer to perceived discord and dysfunction, a dance of vaudevillian proportion, one step forward, two back, and an occasional prate-fall to break any rhythm that may have been attained.

With a sigh I took notice of the hallmarks I intended to record and then closed my eyes,… perhaps the next time they will have had a breakthrough and will be prepared for me to walk amongst them, till then I will wait and watch,…