The cracker went up in the sky from the womb of the mother, it had 'arrived' on the canvass of the big blue sky with all eyes on it, there was an unseen, but potent marriage; then it burst into many small sparkling children, in the literal and the non-literal sense, the justification of its purpose... then it vanished in the vanity of the canvass of the big blue sky... in vain.Varun, 27-April-2008
Only our duration is slightly longer, from our frame of reference!