Everything I Have Come To Know, but Accept As Temporary

Life,
Here now, we are, we can, and we will,
Breathe, and create for we are the creators.
We are the forever young, for our souls,
Are detached from our bodies, they do not age.

We can absorb the knowledge deep within the shelves,
If we wish to learn, and we can experience all,
Hidden in caverns and train stations, we can,
Be a part of everything, we are alive.

Live like you are aware of life, and know the gift,
You have been given, so much it’s incredible.
Never assume anything, except that tomorrow,
Will never be like today, have hope, or fear.

Change,
I throw glitter that doesn’t sustain,
The illusion I try to create,
Although, I understand I need no illusion.
I can be without being made of glossy glass.

Here now, and changed a day from now.
Metamorphosis on the run, a chameleon,
Who does not repeat his mistakes.
Learn and relearn what colors work.

Learning most of my lessons face down.
Then having the strength to stand back up,
Wipe the tears away, they are temporary,
Stress relievers and nothing more.

Death,
The man on the bench disappears,
Who notices? A life gone,
I notice, and that void cannot be filled,
He was never anything, but everything at once.

Facing candles we let loose our grief.
Running your hand down that dark wood,
And begging to see that face again,
Filled with life and able to exist once more.

We all have each other and the world too,
Nothing is eternal but eternity, and,
That we shall not encounter here, only elsewhere.
Little one, no more tears, we are a blink of an eye.

Legacy,
When we are but uncomfortable shadows,
Cast upon the walls at night, where we were,
But now are not, sleeping in another world,
No longer able to spread ourselves among the living.

What have we been? In this world we feel less,
Than what we realize we are, we really are,
Stones that, cast upon the pond shake the surface,
And create ripples from our point of exit, they spread.

Nobody is weightless in the end, and we pull,
Upon the fabric of the world around us,
Bringing down heads in all directions,
Whether or not we were gods among men in life.