Between birth and death

[blazeofglory]

Is the birth gift of life?
So do all say.
I gainsay this, to widen the domain of life
To encircle an underworld, of the departed.
For life is incomplete without death.
That Life and death the same are old hackneyed talks
Bore me and I want to see it from a different angle
Life to me is a midpoint, a median between the deathliness of death
Sprightliness of birth
It is a process, not the thing, an event against the vastness of time and space.
God, religion, ethics, nation, beliefs, principles
These are veneers, and as fragile as lumps of snow in the sun
We educate ourselves and others,
But this is a leap up and down, within a periphery that does not get you anywhere
Your pride is pointless; your conceit is inane.
Life and death both are conceptions, and indeed there is no life and death
Man is neither born nor will he die
The seeming is as true the child’s imagination to see sheep in the floating cloud
I want to dissuade myself from the tangles of education
From the sayings of my seniors
From the readings of sacred texts
To put off the silhouettes of ideas that shroud truth.
So that I can see life between birth and death
Or Life is the summation of birth and death, undivided.

[lucidnightmares]

from what I can understand it`s an interesting idea, life and death don`t actually exist. They are just a concept we created, and therefore necessary for each other to exist. (mostly to contrast I suppose)
All our ideals and morals are just things we created and because of this, can be easily questioned, which is something i guess we don`t do enough, we believe everything to be set in stone, though stone eventually crumbles, much like past ideals and beliefs.
I get an image in my mind of ignorance, simply believing everything the man in the white coat tells you.
People often forget to think for them selfs (something I am all to guilty of to be honest) and therefore forget to question reality and rules.

sorry for the rant, this just really got me thinking i guess, i really enjoyed it.
Thank you for your beautiful thoughts.

[firefangled]

I think you are definitely in an excellent presence lately. Your lines are inspired.