Alive vs Living

Billion years ago
we all started the same
in the world ruled by death
and learned to fear it,
but some feared more than others,
and those who dreaded it the most
evolved into humans.

Animals recognise death
only when they are
face to face with it,
they are blessed not to have allowed It
displaced living out of their hearts,
they live open to the world
embracing it,
they live free.

In humans fear of deaths hides
deep inside their souls
behind the hard shell of cruelty of fearful;
eyes so trained to look inwards
that they have forgotten that there is a world outside-
which sets our soul free by pouring beauty into our eyes,
a billion years of fear of death have made us blind to its very antidote-
the beauty of the world around us.

We worry too much about being alive than living,
heightened consciousness is our true curse:
for It is nothing but knowing fear of death.

Perhaps the reward of ultimate consciousness
will be dying every moment with unbearable fear of death,
but having an infinite life span.

What good that would be, I wonder!


-Pulastya