mortality
are we blessed, or cursed,
with the knowledge of our own mortality?
Carl Sagan argued it was the brain's physical evolution: Broca's Brain,
within which synapses linked and revealed a future
in which we were not present,
JRR Tolkien created his immortal elves
for whom mortality was God's gift to humans,
for how better to appreciate the moment
when you know a time is coming
when such moments won't exist,
I remember those who have passed
beyond the presence of my moments,
I hold both hope and fear
as to what future moments might bring,
I choose to feel blessed
by embracing the glory of the moments we are allowed.
by Henry H. Walker
September 2, ‘25
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