Time: A Lethal Virus

I do not fear death. I have been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark Twain ( https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/25647-i-do-not-fear-death-i-had-been-dead-for)


Lethal Infection


We are all infected with a lethal virus
that will lead to our demise
and not one of us is immune to this
despite how ego tries
to convince us if we work hard
and if  we really  try
we can put aside the truth
that everything will die.
We take our antivirals and drink up
all the elixirs the world supplies
and   we swallow so hopefully,
believing ego's lies.


We tuck away our ceremonial skulls
in the drawers of our mind
and as  processions pass outside our windows
we quickly draw  the blinds.
We drop  our eyes  and walk away from forms
burning on the  funeral pyres
and  we allow our denial and pretending
to extinguish all the fires.


 We cringe as  the mirror ungraciously reflects
 every desperate crease and line,
that the years have placed upon our skin
as just another sign
that like the aged and  the feeble
our own bodies will decay.
So we cover  up each wrinkle and
 hide all beings who reflect the truth away.

We can't ignore the clocks upon the wall
that sing out with their ticking hands
that our moments are diminishing,
that there's no escaping time's demands.
Like all of nature's produce
our bodies  will wither, brown and die
making room for new life beneath us
to emerge from the plot in which we lie.

Death is a natural sign of impermanence
that all nature must  endure
so don't listen to the ego when it professes,
through denial, we can cure.
Just accept that this heavy form we inhabit
like an outfit made of time
must be removed when the span  is over,
when Life has reached her prime.

Take a breath and breathe it in,
the reality of  what you are:
you are human; you are earth;
you are comet; you are star
and beneath the form that exhales
the last precious dying breath
is a something or a no-thing
that will outlive this thought of death.

Dale-Lyn (May 2020)

This is getting a bit ridiculous lol. ...especially with the rhyming! Anyway...was listening to Eckhart Tolle talk about time as a lethal virus (see link below) and this is what popped out.  Go figure.

I know that "poets" and those who critique poetry will probably look at this as anything but poetry.  I myself do not know what to call it...it just comes out!

All is well

Eckhart Tolle (May 2, 2020) Finding Death Before Death Finds You. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfGjm2lHqpQ