Once in A Lifetime?

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Thoreau

if you cut me, do i not bleed?

if you scatter me, am i not seed?

if we dance, would you not let me lead?

if i have nothing, do i not need"

if i profess and believe, is that not a creed?

if i wave a white flag, do i not concede?

if i fornicate, do i not do the dirty deed?

if i reproduce, do i not breed?

if i urinate, have i not peed?

if i beg for mercy, do i not plead?

if i drive over the speed limit, do i not speed?

if tomorrow comes, is that not the same as it ever was?

if yesterday is gone, is that not the same as it ever was?

if the season changes, is that not the same as it ever was?

if therefore is because, is not that the same as it ever was?

if a mountain is rock, a desert sand, and the sea wet, is that not the same as it ever was?

if i take more than i need, is that not greed?

if we reach an accord and shake hands, have we not agreed?

if my fingers touch braille, do i not read?

if i plant a garden, will there not be a weed?

if i glide down a snowy hill on narrow planks attached to my feet, have i not skied?

if my clothes are made of thick woolen fabric, is that not tweed?

if my oven is dirty, is that not grime?

if i steal your heart, is that a crime?

if i experience a miracle, is that not a sign?

if my fickle words sound similar, is that not a rhyme?

isn't what happens at a given moment,

down to the last minute detail,

but once in a lifetime?

Author's Note

""I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived"" - Thoreau