Dirt

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Oh, when it’s all said and done,

Make me the earth again—

Return me to the dirt

From where I came,

And let the living have every part of me.

I have no claim to the atoms

Of my body.

Chemicals collided and

One day soon they will fall apart again.

And I will remain,

Only rearranged—

In the air, the soil, the trees, the beings.

Like everything else, I am the universe.

Expressing itself, if only for a moment,

As a human being,

On a pale blue dot,

On the far arm of a spinning galaxy.

When my little spark dies out,

I hope I find some truth.

No reason, really. It doesn’t matter.

Its just a flicker of a joy I have,

For when things get darker.

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#poetry #death