The Rise and Fall of Life
The soft embrace of Earth
Relaxed breaths fall off my chest
The rise and fall of life
Its windows peer up at the glimmers of light perched in the sky
Two apertures looking out on the expanse
So close to my touch
yet
miles
away
A fractile of existence
With infinite capacity for possibility
The mask of a void
What’s out there? Who’s watching?
Spheres shifting
Darkness twining
Light hovering
Why won’t you let me see?
Why won’t you take off your mask?
Covering a mirror of endless reflection
Or are you truly ugly in all your essence
Beautiful yet cruel
Relentless yet gentle
But everlasting nonetheless
A quiet, empty, blackness
Flooded with the screams of silence
Still, paralyzed, hushed
Time moving slow
Tick tick ticking
My mind in a spacewalk of numbness
Still, paralyzed, hushed
The rise and fall of life
da dump
da dump
da dump
The unknown that haunts humanity in their dreams
But we are here
We are living
The rise and fall of life
One chance
To live in question
Or accept existence
To each their own and to me, mine
Mine
Mine
Mine
What to make with mine
One chance
The world at my fingertips
A child of yielding clay
An elder of wisdom and spirit
Time slowed down
Once chance
And my possibilities are endless
The rise and fall of life
A life of infinite possibility