let life return to its natural course
death as well medicine is a gift
until it becomes a tool with which we wield hope over
the natural world like a magic wand
or a divining stick or
something like the king’s sepulture touching down on each shoulder
giving us eternal life remember
it comes not just with the joys
you can’t have one and not the other
life must settle back to its born rhythm allowing humans to return dust to dust
so that then eternal