2 steps

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Only two steps.
You wouldn't know it was only two, not a trek of a thousand.
Two footprints.

The mud reeks, the footprints slide into tracks, slipping down, no telltale sole of a shoe to see.

Those two steps will take themselves through eons.
Leaving drying splots until dirt-like sand, aggregate with smooshed compost, begins to break down atomically.

Perhaps not into atoms, maybe only into molecules that will stick, floating in the ionized space, just above the flooring.
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