Eternal Life

How beautiful
to see eternity stretch before us

Infant to child
to adolescent
to adult
to elderly
to the earth once more

We return home
and back to life
over and over

Many lives
Many guises

Eternal life
All of us
Here
Forever

what doesn't matter

it doesn't matter

what they say

doesn't matter

to me

at all

and it never did

and it never will

and its late

and its late

and lets wait

for dawn

to come again

so near

so near again

to us

to this

to night

end of

night

The Constancy of Our Substance

What I do not know could fill

almost every book in every library

from antiquity til now.


What I do not know could fill

almost every hard drive

in every computer on earth.


What I do know is very little

and fits into an area no larger

than my clenched left fist.


What I do know is valuable

and cannot be forgotten,

will be carried with me


until its weight is too much

to bear, and when that day

comes we will free each other-


uncoupled from our shared burden

our energy will change states-

become a different kind of matter.