quintessential time traveller
you are alive - walking, talking, eating, sleeping
waking daily to confront the morn
yet never fully realizing - you are alive
you are numb to the feeling
unaware of life's quiet opposition
you seek all the available comforts
money, property, fashion, sex, status
but you omit death
even if taxes remind you of its presence
would you miss yourself if you were gone forever
would your disappearance matter, to you, or anyone
was your life consequential
did you make a difference, or were you just indifferent
would you have changed anything, or everything
who's fault would it be, if everything required change
did you seek to understand life, or exhaust it
was it a rodeo or a pilgrimage
have you thought of returning, knowing not that you may
have you neglected death
and have you considered your soul
it's the quintessential time traveller
riding bareback atop God's dreams
finding rest between each eternity
thank you,
joseph pede
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