Forever
Soon I will waltz with forever
Through the tides of the cosmic sea
My vibrations – echoes of ripples
Lapping throughout finity
My atoms will dance in your body
My dreams will inhabit your mind
My atoms will dance on forever
Influencing all space and time
I am but a flea throwing elephants
A worm pushing mountains aside
But my atoms will join with your atoms
Six billion fleas can maybe decide
Not to fling a few elephants skywards
To move a few mountains about
But to join and all pull together
To listen and not merely shout.
Soon I will waltz with forever
And I will just cease to be
My vibrations becoming mere echoes
Rippling a cosmic sea.
I’d like to think they will make things better
Resonate a positive force
But the universe’s big
And time is quite long
It’ll take all of us to alter our course.
I am not a flea but a microbe
With lofty ambitions for sure
But I grapple with mountains and elephants
And you’re welcome to enter my door
To the universe I’m symbiotic
Please give up your pathogenic ways
Resonate in time
Join your ripples with mine
Build Tsunami’s sublime
Let’s relax into more caring days
When I dance that long waltz with forever
I’ll be smiling as we swirl around
Cos I’ve fought every day for the future
So that all things can breathe and expound.
Opher 26.3.00
After death I will be no more. My consciousness will dissipate with the electricity in my synapses. The universe will shut down. My body will be left to medical science (my mother set a precedent), there will be a service of remembrance and later my remains (after the students have finished mucking about with it) will be burnt. Most of my molecules will be let loose into the air and my ashes put back in the soil.
I shall not miss the universe because there will be nothing of me to miss anything.
I will remain in the people that knew me and have been affected by me. My ripples touch people and change them. It may be little it may be big. I am sure there will be a few tears. But more importantly is that my life will have had an influence, however small, on all those around me. I help unleash the zeitgeist.
I want to make my ripples into tsunamis.
My aim in life is simple – to enjoy it, see and do as much as possible, create what I can, experience the gamut and live it to the full, and leave it better than when I came in. I want a better world for my grandchildren.
I want them to be able to marvel at gorillas in the jungles and whales in the seas. I want them free to think, as free as me.
