Widespread and weightless

We arrive here as beings
Bound by stardust
The breaths follow
Loudly expressing our disconsolacy

Torn from the sky
Thrust into a loud, bright world
When all we knew
Was a subtly thrumming darkness

We want to go back
Some part of us
Always wishing for what was lost
To be made particulate and floating again
Or perhaps it's just me
Desperate for the simplicity of aimlessness

The pressure of goals
The complexity of wholeness
Held here by gravity

My cells remember
When I was widespread and weightless
I must remind them I am temporary
This time of jostling and bustle
Will end more quickly than it began

They will be free to roam again
Many years from now
When I am gone
Having been here sufficiently long
To begin asking for release
From the bonds that held so fast

My memories and those of me will fade
Dispersed to wind and waves
Absorbed eventually elsewhere
In someones and somethings else