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Reflections on Eternity 

We’re each a precious jewel that radiates

Illuminating everyone we meet 

Reflecting, too, what others emanate.

Exchanges stir a mutual conceit.

We’ve many facets to our personae

Thus everybody sees us differently.

Though we imagine egocentrically

We’re lightning bolts in Time’s vast tapestry.

Each gem’s a prism viewed across deep space

That spawns a rainbow lit across all Time

The consummation of every sentient trace

Reveals the universe’s grand design.

Through contemplating our trajectory

we’ll penetrate the cosmic mystery.

Know one is more important than you. You know who you are, but do you? You're who you see in the mirror, but  nearly all the molecules of which you are made has been replaced, some many times. So you're now who you see in the mirror. You transcend all those parts.

Within you there are ten times more bacteria than there are human cells. Are they part of you? Or are you actually a vessel for transporting them? 

What do others see? Taken together, the web of all the people you've known, loved and learned from, you're projected through them and their lives.

You're made up of cells who have no idea that, collectively, they are part of you.

Are you, like them, a part of something much more complex?

Could there be another form of life on earth of which you are unaware? Are the rocks alive? Perhaps they move on a time scale we can't relate to?

And through the vast depths of space are you connected in ways you can't fathom? How do we drift into those currents that connnect us? When you muse, are you dipping into a web of communication? Are you, briefly,  a portal into the cosmic consciousness that transcends time and space?

When you die, your spirit lives on in those who remember you, but where do you go? Do you join in the harmonic resonance of the universe?