Realization

Piercing realization that everything has changed.

The place that was is no longer here. It's a different place; hours take over.

The illusion of an island on which we can retreat from time, from change— to take a break, to pause, to stop.

We are submerged in the flowing river, and the wind of change blows through every bone. It is impossible to hide, to stop, to save. Change happens, we change.

That's the experience of being mortal, having a body, form, living in form—experience of living.

And that river of time will remind us that we are coming to You.

It'll be a shock when castles dissolve into sand, when achievements disappear. And what remains is You and Your gentle embrace.