The Importance of being Unimportant

The fish swims

To the water of its birth

To fulfill the meaning

Of its meaningless existence

To mate and create

Another batch of fish

That will swim down stream

Only to swim back

To start the process over again

The fish fights off death

In order to spawn

Only to die shortly after

Why such effort?

Why the cycle of death and birth?

To birth or to die

Such risk suffered or maybe not

A risk one takes in order to feel alive

Not to die

Is that the great sin of our parents?

To birth and continue the absurd

Have I committed a crime against her?

I brought her to existence, her life was my choice

What do I tell her to do?

When existence is pointless

For her to birth again and continue

The ancestral line

I birthed, I die, She will birth and then die

Are we here by choice?

I came here by theirs

Only to swim back upstream

Rinse and repeat

Cycles cleanse such as the water

The cycle of humanity

Taken into heaven to be brought back pure

Here to purge our instincts

Or partake of the fruit

To purge out the man

Or to indulge in it

Why do I keep waking in the morning?

When I could barely survive yesterday

I can’t do better today

For tomorrow will only be filled with regret

Cycle must purge the regret and accept

Existence is pointless

So why bother exist

Forgive me my child

I sinned in ignorance

But I will not abandon you to the wilderness

I will suffer the existence with you

Or you with me

You the salt of this existence

That tastes like a McDonald’s #3

Giving birth is selfish

So as to not be alone

To carry the heavy load

                 -Quasimodo