Om

Once a thing exists
it is imprinted on eternity
and it always was and forever will be
words cannot be unsaid
and deeds cannot be undone
because this is a closed circuit
a moebius strip reality
and if means ever

i have lived and died this life innumerable times
and I shall ever live it
my blue eyes and beard will always be here
i’ll watch my cats jump from the top of the fridge down onto the microwave
in a hundred trillion lifetimes
just as i did eighty nine million births of the universe ago

and because of this om
this unity of all things
you and I are one
I’ve watched myself through your eyes
and I’ve been a blade of grass under our blanket when we had a picnic
I was the bee that stung me on my elbow in the living room in 2012
and together we were the manna that fell from heaven centuries ago
and became the blue and brown mushrooms that chipped open my third eye
and I was my grandfather under steel and ash in Iwo Jima
and I was my grandmother watching dusk fall as she washed dishes

The Bible says “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun”
And Nietzsche says “Time is a flat circle. Everything we have done or will do we will do over and over and over again—forever”
And the Teletubbies say “Again, again!”

It is One
To fear death is to stake ego to something temporary
when what you are right now is a small impression
a little bubble about to pop in an infinite ocean
but it would not be complete without you
and we’re all here, watching and loving
you exist within the entirety of it
you live and breathe the sacred greatness of all
you give handshakes to fathers and hugs to mothers
as a single-celled organism is born on a planet lightyears away
and you share in that communion
watch this world
look into it
pick a dandellion
and blow the seeds off to wherever
as you were