They say the only certainties in life

Are death and taxes

I say the only certainty is change

The vehicle by which

The old becomes new again

The only thing that prevents

The same day being every day

Sometimes we fear change

As we fear death

The ultimate change

Yet how easily we sleep at night

Our daily preparation for the Long One

And every morning we wake up again

What is change but a movement

A flow

The same way energy traverses the Universe

A dance with many steps

Left, right, and left again

Move to the rhythm

Keep time to the sound

Change brings new life

New places to explore

These paths we haven’t walked before

Shifting patterns

Coalescing and transforming

Every one breathtaking

In it’s own right

We seek out new ways to speak

Without speaking

In a moment looking up at the same stars

Knowing that even though they are so far away

Their light still reaches us

Part of it enters us

Right through the windows to the soul

And bounces on the retina

At rest after millennia

In a place made of the same stuff that it is

Stardust to stardust

Light to the soul