Are We All But a Number
In this world and in this life
(Are we all just another number)
A tax statistic or
a corporation's itemized figure.
There are of pluses and negatives.
The accounting of the additions and then the subtractions.
These are the balance sheets of life.
This is with "gains, and losses."
Is that the higher plan for mortal man
existence on this dusty earth?
A salary, or no salary.
A bank account, or no accounts.
Zeros and Ones, 1, 0.
Added together are they supposed to be fine gold?
A man’s worth weighed
on a numbered scale of more or less.
Were we created to be only digital number notations?
Numbers in hourglasses filled with very fine earthly sand.
Grains of sand running then emptying,
into the canvas of time.
This of a dusty dust, not solely returning to the ground.
For, we are very, much, much more: than that which is ever seen.
"Yes, yet, not solely just numbers, indeed!"
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