It's all so terrifyingly simple
We've overcomplicated it
There is a deliberate continuum
Being maintained throughout
All the detailed narrative
No matter what your crazy theory is
No matter what mouth noises
Or squiggly lines you make
To point towards something
That isn't here and now
We are just life
Bubbling and boiling
And desperate to make more life
And anything else is just in the way
Of doing that so please
Use whatever semantic mechanisms
You need to feel better about
Your fleshy impulsive existence
You are a seed
You are a fluid
There is no rising above
Because it will never stop being
All around you
You were designated
As a temporary step in a massive
And beautiful process long
Before you stopped and
Recognized the privilege
Of "being here"
Or "asking questions"
You are electricity
You are rivers and glaciers and vapors
This is not a poetic metaphor
This is fact
Accept the titanic majesty of creation
Into your self-identity
Become mountains with your body
Open the rivers inside you
You are the galaxies and the flowers
All at once
This is not just a nice thing to say
Or a pleasant thing to hear
This is who you are
Every wall you have built and
Fortified with your trembling
Certainties
All of it can be reduced to ash
With a whisper
You are a note that tumbles
Down the hillside of a symphony
Nothing that you are
Will ever be a statue
You are the raindrops
You are the gusts
You are the piles that
Accumulate in the corners
You will forget
You will remember
You will forget
You will remember
You will hate forgetting
You will love remembering
You will hate remembering
You will love forgetting
Look up from the script
And share a knowing glance
With your co-stars
There never was going to be
Any rehearsal
- Anonymous, Found in the Temple at Burning Man, 2015
I hope these words move you to let go, and realize the simplicity of life, and the simplicity of simply existing. Take a deep breath.
