Timing the Pivot

the last second will always pass slower than the next. Enjoy as much of it as you can stand while you can.

from untime i emerge

racing through a void

blinded but not alone

together lost, we dissolve

slowly all of our thoughts

our hopes

our achievements

all of our dreams

together in flight

we dissolve them into solution

flying faster into irrelevance

paddling upstream together

faster and faster

every moment of struggle

it floods every inch of us

with sweet dopamine and water

filling the bulkheads

passing faster and faster

the sediment accumulates

dissolving the structure

 faster and faster

as we move slower and slower

eventually, it breaks 

we disintegrate piece by piece

together eventually, into time

broken to small bits

in teeny little tiny pieces

we will inhabit a tomb

full of small parts

a room full of small things

turning to dirt

right back into earth

our carbon returns 

as the surface decays

over time

the deepest of changes

they reintegrate

over time

it will happen again

it will reemerge

again

and again

from our past comes a future

be glad this is you

next time will be different

remember

don't forget

we never know

(in the end)

that is our religion

(my friends)

together from the void

(it begins again)

again and again

we only know for sure

we will never know

for sure

how ignorance

   .  can be a beautiful flower

Author's Note