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
