Thu. Nov 21st, 2024

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Closer to fifty now than forty, but who’s keeping count?

You are, because you’ve learned, over time, nothing is

Forever—life a brief conferral of Nature or Fortune.

All we know is everything we won’t remember.

Our bodies do become temples after all,

fortresses constructed to split the balance

between routines and revisions,

experience and epiphany.

 

A fresh wave softens the sand every few seconds, yet

it requires centuries of this ritual

to create coastlines.

All insects measure their work in moments, but

without their frenzied industry everything

we know would cease.

A human womb requires nine months to nurture a birth,

this precise sequence an eternity of evolution at play.

 

The slow motion of a child’s summers will become

snapshots, manufactured by machines

designed to maintain memories.

Our systems stagnate and expire

like light from extinguished stars.

The sun’s eventual implosion will surprise

the beings it sustained, and all things

inexorably return to the earth, reclaimed

and restored: an overture

for the events yet to come.

 

The calculus of ego and anniversary mutually

oblige more immediate concerns, and

consciousness inquires:

What have you done to savor your allotment?

What have you done to advance our awareness?

What have you done to propagate the accord?

What are you doing to commemorate this life?

 

 

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