WAS IT NOT EVER SO?

 This Solstice has set me thinking about the cycle of life and death. I think some part of us returns to the earth after we die, clad in a different form, to learn more of life. 
This post's poem is about that process and it recycles a line from a poem that did not work. I always keep those lines that seem powerful, that have a good image or that are simply too good to loose.
I was in a car on the motorway, thankfully not driving, when the idea came to me. As usual I am not certain that it is in its finished form but here it is.

As a murmuration of starlings swirls at sunset,

turning in the reddening evening air,

so shall we gather again at the cessation of this cycle,

to regroup and refresh in that timeless space,

before we return for one more round of carbon life and love.

Was it not ever so?

Give thanks

I leave you with a 1979 video of Leonard Cohen singing So Long Marianne.