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life
life is everything and nothing and something all at once
contracting to fit into my coin purse
clinking against my pennies and dimes
it warps to fit around an unearthly bacterium
i feel life swell while i sit, listening to a symphony
melodies are born, a life form and species all their own
exponentially, life crashes and folds and cracks and bends
i watch it move and stretch with bated breath
swaying willow trees
and imploding supernovas
the lavender lampshade down the street winks out for the night
and a firefly buzzes and flashes, calling out to the rest of life’s infinitesimal forms
searching for one match in the undulating ripples of the world
a butterfly flaps its wings
and an island cracks apart at its core
life goes on, i suppose
a baby waddles and trips through its first steps
their parents cooing and smiling and tearing up
the sun will continue as it always has, spinning like a universal, shining golden top
i watch it tenderly as it sets
the blues and purples and reds and oranges braiding together in a bursting swell of light
movie stars dry their tears when the cameras cut their filming
and a spaceship soars into uncharted skies
these dichotomies confuse me, cause me distress as i grapple with the fact that nothing is real
yet everything is real
life ebbs, the stock market tanks
life flows, a flower bursts from the ground
and i wonder if one knows the other
if the flowers know of the stock market
if a stockbroker knows of the flowers
are they connected, intertwined, laced together for ever and ever?
that is something i cannot say, something i cannot confirm nor deny
and i never will be able to
and i am ok with that
that knowledge settles into a comfortable warmth in my heart
because it is so much easier to realize that life will exist and run and crawl however it pleases
i and my friends and enemies and distant relatives and future lovers are all just passengers
we will sit back and watch life as it goes by
and i believe that no idea as comforting as that will ever be uttered again
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