The Oldest Truck Driver
I have seen civilizations rise and fall and generations live and die in a blink of my eye When you’ve lived as long as I have, time starts to contract I started as a slave driver then ship’s captain, then truck driver and airplane pilot Always transporting, never stopping For if I stop, they’ll learn my secret They’ll see this old man never dies For quite a while, after pilot, I flew the spaceways in my ship at near the speed of light. But now that all the shipping lanes are connected through the Gates, there’s nothing left to transport, at least in this universe. So please, let me come with you, to the parallel worlds. Who knows, perhaps on one of them, I can transport once again