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It's Okay, Love
It's here, love
The spring has come, the flowers spread their seed,
Humans are doing the same
(They're multiplying, dear,
there will be more of them--
more flowers, more people, more life)
.
It's amazing, love
Different cycles: nine months, or two
One year if you're a tree
(But it's the same isn't it? Life spreading life,
the created becoming creators,
time working as a friend, for once)
.
We're alive, love
We walk
We talk
We lie under our dark blue sky and argue the merits of living on the moon
(You think it strange, but it's a wonderful thought, truly:
just us, preserved on cool rock.
We would look down at Earth and imagine ourselves closer to the stars)
.
We're dying, love
I celebrate this life but
Living is also dying
We might as well celebrate that too
(My time will come before yours, I hope;
with you, I would be that selfish)
.
It's okay, love,
Winter will come again
The flowers will die
We will die
(And it will be tragic, surely,
but deserved, I imagine,
and we will have lived greatly, tirelessly;
we'll welcome the rest)
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