Connected

Where is our tether?

What binds these avatars to all that is?

Rootless, what do we do for this world?

What value from our injection here?

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Water binds fish to streams & seas.

Does the air bind me?

Capillaries & chlorophyll tie leaves to trees.

Am I connected, am I free?

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Avatars be damned.

Stop living in make believe.

I breath. I love. I touch. I see.

Flesh and blood I am.

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Reality is here & now.

Don’t buy the gawds or astrology.

Leave the magic, the superstition.

Truth is simple, yet hard to believe.

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Like souls, avatars be.

Useless misrepresentations

of you and of me.

We inject mystery, exaggerations.

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Evolved predators all homo sapiens,

Without souls but huge imaginations,

Kill and eat in complete admission.

Delible lives without submission.

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I am who I am. I leave what I leave.

I cannot live another way.

I die and will not live another day.

There is no magic, no mystery.

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Experience life’s pleasure and pain,

Its heartache and amazement.

Glean what you can along the way.

Leave this place better than you found it.