Long for permanence... in a fluid world
Amidst flux, try anchor… to no avail
Fleeting is nature... yet futilely cling
Like harmony’s notes… escape whilst we sing
Bodies to stardust... again will return
Even when bones are interred in rich earth
Water evaporates… gases float free
Planet’s ancestors… became part of me
Recycle through atmosphere... breath, breeze, rain
Through plant life, animals... rotate again
From mother to child… old atoms are passed
New generation forged… via ancient ash
We know it’s true... comprehend with our minds
Yet due to egos... compartmentalize
Label, I from you; us, he, she… they, them
Infinitely entangled… Star-children
But what of love, souls… precious memories?
Where do they go… as collectively grieve
Are we bound for heaven… woven in time?
Scattered to the galaxies… God’s vast eyes?
It’s unfathomable… finite, nothingness
Despite/because of… certitude of death
Beliefs placate us... in all, comfort find
Yet miss how to resonate… or deny
Wind stifles a fire... or can propagate
Differences strengthen... division seeds hate
All together as whole… we’re immortal
Science, spiritism… at last chordal
Without each other… we cannot survive
Empathy, symbiosis… how we thrive!
Fluidity of thoughts… can heal our earth
Mending separations; true peace… we’d earn
Perhaps, this is why… permanence we court
Sense through segregation… time’s running out
Intuitively, already… reaching out?
Desperately, to repair… bonds in doubt
Is that why we’re lonely… foreboding grief?
Haphazard couplings… satiate relief
Is truth, we’re all… a mere puzzle piece?
Network of spirits… within life’s matrix
Not sure, all I know… I grieve when love leaves
To it, I belong… authentically me
Feel a vital link break… hope’s severed chord
Discern need to repair… heal and restore
In panic, forget… to die, must first live
To mourn a lost love... must have once, had it
I’m thankful for… challenging life’s lessons
As letting go… equates to aliveness
Our blessing is now… this allotted time!
Even stars burn out… universe declines
Muse life’s contradictions… impermanence
Add legacy… to combined consciousness
For us to be born… the cosmos conspired
So let’s dwell in beauty… explore our minds
Gift hope, poems, equations... works of art
Tokens of existence… songs of our hearts
Energised… intone, at life’s centroid
As one day we’ll glimpse… the infinite void
© Debbie Razey 2023 - Violet Moon Poetry
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