Immortality

Change is known against unseen permanence Finitude against the concept of fullness As ignorance cries out to omniscience Life seeks out immortality While time rivers sequentially into eternity Someone taught me The latter in all these is the same And I am truly the latter Transient all the former Birds that sing and die in the bush Winds breathing their last stopped by mounts Flowers that smile in the sun and wither at night Spring-time streams that dry up in the heat Galaxies spinning into black-hole mouths All of them transient asked me aloud: What are we and where are we In the grand schematology Of your pompous immortality? Head bent, shamed by their poser I knew they were the very mirror In which I saw my fullness Complete if I am, a mirror Outside me is sure an error They are in me, so never apart Immortal, all in one The non-dual song of eternity We can sing only together Never alone, never alone!