Ng Rippel Poet Tanka

Immortality

immortality
wide-spread human delusion
short lived confusion
denies the fragility
of living on this planet

most plain simple words
will have much longer life spans
than any human
focusing on the person
blurs the image of mankind

seven thousand years
of known human history
but a minute glitch
within millions of eons
contained in this existence

feeling immortal
misinterprets eternal
limits perspective
evolution's main purpose
better configurations

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David Kavanagh January 3, 2022 at 8:43 AM In your own immortal words NG, 7 thousand years of known human history, but in that brief instant, for the first time since all creation or Big Bang, our intelligence surpasses and outgrows evolution, and that quantum leap now questions immortality, even reality itself, Beautiful thought provoking Tankas, cheers David