You Will Be by the Time We Reach You

But what if you were the world?
What if, as you meet these words,
You are all the world there is?
How could you know it’s not true?
We words can’t know it’s not true.
We would be here, then, for you.
And what can we do for you,

World? You are all, and in all
You are these words are so small.
We’re specks in the world you are,
Ticks in the hours, years you are.
We have no wise words for you,
Just these odd thoughts that we are,
And you are the world to us.