Loud Sounds and Soft Whispers

/ Flowerpoet
Setting sun and seashore Vancouver Island

Loud Sounds and Soft Whispers

When I leave this busy, noisy World

in soft and humble farewell whispers

like a gentle breeze passing through

or autumn leaves carried to ground

with barely a notice, barely a sound,

I’ll leave little more than memories

held in those few lives I’ve known…

Even those memories will soon erase

like footprints on a seashore

when tides of time leave no trace…

In time, we’ll all be forgotten,

all our cherished loved ones here,

even Mankind’s most famous few

and our technological civilization too,

gone and forgotten in time

leaving little behind or buried deep…

A few ruins, artifacts and fragments

will be telling of our passing presence

with its signs disappearing in time…

Will Humanity die and disappear

in loud sounds or farewell whispers?

Earth transforms, renews its body

slowly through Ages, quickly through Dramas.

Our Star, our Sun, is aging too.

Its solar storms and solar winds

will someday cease and be gone as well.

Everything physical is impermanent

with constant change in the firmament

as Spirit pervades and passes through.

March 29, 2023

Shelley Audrey Wilson

Victoria, BC

Sunset at the seashore

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