Undoing
©August 12th, 2017
By Vijaya Sundaram
Stubborn and resistant, life persists,
Insists on poking its head wherever
Whenever, however it wants.
Without judgment, without pausing,
It pokes out of the concrete,
Forms inside bellies, bursts out
From exquisite eggs, ripples forth,
Wriggling and indiscrimate, from spawn.
Curious and uncaring, life bursts out,
An anomaly in a cold, dead universe –
An anomaly, thumbing its nose
At that all that leans forward
To negate it, erase it from being.
Life is arrogant and stupid,
But it cannot help itself.
For it thumbs its nose at everything.
And in the end, undoes itself.
And the universe spins slowly
Cold and uncaring, full of star-spawn,
Dead, but waiting to to be born
Again and again, for ever.
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