Let us dance among clouds singing of Death
such mornings as we awaken to predawn
and dancing fall from heaven, though it’s merely
sky, and drub our heads against another
day as the planet turns on its axis
chasing this eccentric path around our sun
spinning in Earth’s backwater neighborhood
in a galaxy we call Milky Way –
and what is death? merely a transition?
thermodynamics teaches us plainly
that energy and matter are permanent
despite their fluctuations over time.
As we are an amalgam of both, it follows
that we, though mortal, remain permanent.

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