Discovery’s Everlasting Gift
Understanding and knowing truth
Should be enjoyable.
Is there truth in…
Our lungs receive oxygen as a whisper of life,
Sunlight makes itself known often
By dancing on leaves.
Can rain be known as gentle kisses made real upon the earth?
Who would doubt the potential reality
Of flowers blooming a symphony of colors?
From the first cry of a newborn,
Emotion finds purchase in life,
Moving through time
Said truth can become wisdom
As etched in wrinkles
Like a tapestry of moments learned
Adding to the threads of this life fully lived.
Might all living forms exiting life
Inherently accept the inevitable realm of completion,
The cessation of a singular time period
Having prepared existence for the next iteration?
Such is the continuation of experience,
Threads in progress,
An unfinished weave ready to address
Another period of resolving the enigmatic,
Reminding us all
That what is known
Cannot be unknown.
It is a selfish, unscientific thought, that the human superior soul lives on beyond as though our superiority over all other life gives us somehow this strange ability.
The simple fact is… all of our molecules and atoms, right down to our squiggly quarks, and the only thing remaining of us is our legacy, consisting of a reputation that people remember or even an obscure written passage that somehow rides around in the Internet until it is found.
I can envision colorful beaches of the future consisting of sand-sized bits of plastic that draw tourists from near and far.
Ron