Mortotality

You are the planet

Not a part of it

You are it.

This planet created you

You are an expression of it

 

You believe that you are separate

That you’re different from nature

An exception to it, somehow

None of it’s rules apply to you

You are nature! What else!

 

Maybe you’ve forgotten

That single unavoidable truth

You are mortal

You aren’t here forever

Time is life. Who’s? Yours.

 

Everyday you act immortal

So you delude yourself

You think you have time

Time for anger, judgment

Reacting compulsively

 

The truth of existence is no puzzle

You might think life is long

But it is so so brief

Your time is a fraction of fraction

Of a sliver of a speck in this cosmos

 

If you knew this, lived it

Every moment of your life

You would not waste it

Gratitude, love, compassion

Such things would become simple

 

Human decency dawns

When you realize mortality

The precious fragility of you

Of all of us, friend or foe

No life should miss out

 

The planet too will die

Birth, death, birth death

This is one process, not two

This process is called life

Life is what you are

 

You are not your opinions

Your delusions and masks

Your justifications a plenty

Even now you are forgetting

All life is mortal. Especially yours.

 

Our galaxy is but one of billions

Our solar system a tinier slice

Our planet even less so

Then there’s you.

All of it has it’s time to go.

 

Don’t waste any more time

The point of life is just to be

Happiness is intrinsic to you

Your choice. Not circumstantial.

Life will take care of itself.