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Existence Undying

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

As the multi-guised flowers of the living sprout to life, should we not allow the paradox of life and death remind us there may not be much growth of any kind without compost as continuance. (Image by pinterest)

Saturday, July 24, 2021


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Existence Undying

 

What of THOSE…


from childhood to adulthood
including those determined to reverse engineer adolescence
who hope for delusional youthdom
to sustain who they are
perhaps forgetting
there comes a time
when the death
of ideals
of virtues
of dreams
pass onto their next iteration?

 

 What of THAT…


which serves as tools and nourishment
for the rational beings
to use and abuse
to fend and consume
to eventually exhaust and cast aside?

 

What of IT…


that heart of all that makes possible Those and Thats
the It we sometimes call
the spirit
the soul
the Natural Law
the core essence of then
now
and tomorrow?

 

Are we not all ITS

needing the freedom to utilize the cyclic nature of existence

the death-to-compost

compost-recycled-insemination

insemination-to-life anew?

 

Is not continuance undying?

 

 



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Reviewed by E Phillips
Reviewed on July 25, 2021
Once I am finished with my body, may it fall silently
and passively back to the place from whence it came.
But if I have a spirit that lives on, may it soar to
heights unknown, and may I find all my friends soaring
there with me.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on July 25, 2021
I would much rather have my remains become the fertilizer of a mighty tree then to transported to some place called heaven, or whatever name humans have made up to describe the indefinite place they go to live after death and resurrection or reincarnation.

I much prefer, "dust to dust, ashes to ashes."

Ron


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