Impermanence

It changes so quickly

So slowly

I am changing again

We are not stagnant

Stationary beings

We were not created to

Be this way, stuck

As air moves, so must we

As water flows, so must we

Move.

Flow.

And when we go against air and water

We suffer

When we attempt to defy natural law

We pay dearly

When we are angered by others

Changing around us

Karma finds us

Wallowing

Acting up and out

Harming

Destroying

Fearing

You change so quickly

Or at a snail’s pace

Or your don’t pivot

At all

To end suffering, or at

Least to soften it

Navigate the impermanence

Impermanence

Impermanence

Is the change we experience

Embody

The truth is

“God is Change”*

The fact is

Change is inevitable

The reality is

Transience is organic

The vulnerable, uncertain nature of

Impermanence

Is what brings fear to those who

Resist the edict of

As above, so below

Those who don’t recognize the crossroads

At which they stand

Recognize and receive

Impermanence

Like an elder

Like an old friend

Receive.

* The first tenet of Lauren Olamina’s Earthseed from Octavia Butler’s “The Parable of the Sower