Sonoran Bard

Why Death

Why?

Why do we exist?

What is the meaning and purpose of my consciousness?

At what stage of evolution was that introduced?

Why can I access memories, but not see time before it comes?

I’m here and I was there.

I move because of time.

Give me some room to exhale and something new to inhale.

I look at my own existence and wonder how this all arrived.

And why I can’t go backwards into moment I wish to change.

Could you imagine that?

Branching off timelines?

Instead of us branching off of the only timeline we know of?

But the existence of one thing doesn’t indicate another is there.

Where do we fit in the cycle of being conscious and being dead?

What about before that?

Where were we back then?

A couple of cells can create a being with its own self-awareness.

I guess we lost the race to be the first to create intelligent life.

How can anyone look at human existence and not see God?

How could evolution have made me self-aware?

Where would that have even come from?

Happenstance and chance?

For what purpose?

To what end?

Death?