Life and Death

[not_broken_420]

The element of healthy isolation
Distinguishing each from the mass
Our unique viewpoints create
individual beings
The perspective is born before the body,
the physical manifestation

Without the bit of alienation,
Each having their own experience,
unable to relate past a certain level,
all would blend into One.
Instead, we have the opportunity to experience
ourselves
These separate viewpoints
eventually melt back into their infinite origin

How could something so abstract
a human mind
Have a beginning, an end, within the constraints
of a mere physical lifetime?
We're all leaves on a tree,
After gliding to the ground when autumn comes
Absorbed into the soil
Fertilizer for the rest
The cycle of life continues

And this change, daunting and bewildering
to those unsure
Is actually just a minor transition,
a ripple
and the river flows on.

 

[katmeow]

Thought provoking and nicely written

 

[not_broken_420]

Thank you :-D

 

[colicolo]

insightful and delciate - lovely

 

[ocean]

I love this... It is "thought provoking" and "insightful" like kat and colicolo said- Its wonderful.
"The perspective is born before the body" the persons perspective? do you think? or the perspective of the body viewed by some higher power of what the person should be?? There are so many parts of this that just make my mind reel. The cycles of life in human life and nature are so fascinating! And I enjoyed reading how your tied them together....Again- I love it.

 

[New]

Made me glad to be different.

 

[up all night]

Questions and thoughts I've often mulled over but never as beautifully as this.

 

[(Wordy)]

A beautiful meditation on life, death and rebirth. I share your sentiments.

I love this line especially:

The perspective is born before the body