This is another old one. With all that seems to be challenging our lives, I feel the urge to pose these introspections yet again…

???

Are we rain;
are we sane–ish
working with ageless energy,
planning to live forever,
lives full of regrets and sorrows,
hoping for resurrection

— or —

at least reincarnation

— or —

forever with all our evil friends
in brimstone hellfire climes,
dissipating in smoke, breathed
on smoggy days in any
fossil fuel powered town
anywhere, exhaled into
interstellar spaces, absorbed
in quantum strings, only
to find ourselves here again,
attached by social lines,
cosmic jokes, cheap laughs
in the cheap seats?

–LE – 12/2020