Religion leers
“Join me, or you face death”
And History jeers
“Inevitable death”,
But Science still adheres
To schemes to postpone death…
The path of a 1000 years
Starts with a single breath.
It’s interesting to speculate how long it will take before humans can start regenerating enough key pieces of our ageing and failing bodies that we can uncap our lifespan. A matter of decades rather than centuries, I think–but not soon enough for me, I fear.
The last sentence of the poem riffs on the Chinese saying attributed to Lao Tzu (also rendered as Laozi and Lao-Tze) that “The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.”
The poem was originally published in Bewildering Stories, a weekly of speculative writing of all types, edited by a multinational team but headquartered in Guelph, Ontario.
Photo: “Death” by Andrea Kirkby is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0
Form in Formless Times 
Great poem! Bewildering Stories is awesome
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Thanks Nick! Bewildering Stories has been very good for me, both for having my own work published and for finding new, interesting writers.
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Indeed! They are very fun to work with.
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You have quite a range of work there! Dark and interesting – I particularly like Portia, for some reason.
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Thanks, Robin! Don Webb actually said Portia was similar to stuff you’ve done. I think it’s b/c Portia is along the lines of AI/sci-fi stuff.
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