All that Matters

Here's a another poem by Doug Soderstrom. You can find his past works on Selves and Others.

All That Matters

Thursday 29th September 2005, by Doug Soderstrom


PRE-EXISTENT void,
Big-banged explosion into time,
As stars began to dance in the sky,
Amino acids puddled on the ground,
While fish grew legs,
A Neanderthal’s upright march,
Into the Great Rift cradle of man,
As the dawn of Eden,
Transformed dust into life.

Conception,
A newborn’s scream,
The ebb and flow of life,
A child’s crawl into manhood,
And the inevitable decline,
Into the awful gut-load,
Of one’s own private grave.

And the final-echoed-boom,
Of bomb’s last cry,
Signaling the end,
Of man’s reign on earth.

Yet,
Above all else,
There is but one thing that matters,
Only one thing that shall endure.

Our answer,
To the question of life.

Did we live our life well,
Did we have respect for life,
Were we willing to lay our lives down,
In order that others might live?

posted by Lazarus, 10:01 AM