Life Is Terminal
Life Is Terminal
By: Olivia Rodrigue
Though there is light ever present
It fades, flickers and is swallowed
Life passes in snippets and snapshots
moments and memories
heads full but hallowed
As people we are more than one person in life
we are us
we are we
we are friend, lover sister, brother
Learning so much yet so little is recalled
facts and figures memorized
we walk around
one goal to reach
oblivious to another
As people we have culture
Stipulations and norms
We behave as we’re told
We learn to live by laws
Behave by rules
Earn by adherence and grow old
Each facet is different in each face
Each a running tale
Each wrinkle and blemish
Each scar
Each bruise
Each figure
An outward expression of a life
A story untold
As a person we are inherently egocentric
We judge by the smutty strands slipping off the shadowy shivering silhouettes of strangers
Though we know next to nothing of their unraveling tales
Perfection is a nonexistent concept that we unremittingly, unfeelingly, unwittingly try to achieve
Success is never easy
He, She, It learns this
by creating, planning, scheduling, and meticulously marauding time
Then life laughs
And He, She, It watches
as their plans deteriorate and generate a belligerent sequel
where He, She, It fails
Time can be measured, set, and meticulously planned
Clocks, time zones, minutes, hours, days, months, years
Are all man made
But time cannot be borrowed, manipulated, or created
It is constant like gravity
Trails treaded
tastes devoured
experience and wisdom gained in minute packages
our world is one of many
each perception a glimpse at another universe of captured time
roads revealed are but small glances of an unabridged reality
Life is terminal
Like light it is a cycle of brilliance and blackness
Forever is a delusion
as are never and always
We are the lucky ones
Though the physical impression of our inimitable footprint may leave this earth
Opportunities for love, beauty, and compassion are boundless
A part of you that can be shared
A part that stays
Copyright © Olivia Rodrigue | Year Posted 2017
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