~ a meditative realization ~
Original DDE™ art: ”The Stepping In” & “The Body Electric” by: rob kistner © 1/5/26
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life is a chord continuum
no strummed beginning
no fading resolve—
only vibration resonating form
changing timbre through eternity
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we are not born
we do not come from nothing
to become something
we step in
taking a different perspective
to resume what we are—
to resume what we always have been
at our core—
~ pure energy ~
energy…
pausing long enough
to take a body
to take a name
to mindfully observe—
to have a good metaphysical think
discuss encountered opinions
examine enlightenment
take a dimensional cognitive form
with which to explore
the temporal field—
experientially
time calls this a beginning
—birth
because time requires edges
but now
as we continue
as individual aware beings
nothing in us
embraces that story
for very long
its purpose—
as an aligned introduction
to the physical world…
eventually wanes
time is an eternal passage
temporal life is a hallway
through which we pass— slowly
the physical body is the vehicle
enabling us to touch the walls
to leave fingerprints—
of love…
of grief…
of music…
of art…
of poetry…
to encounter others
encountering us
Original DDE™ art: “Body Electric II” by: rob kistner © 1/5/26
what we call living
is simply attention paid
in our infinite forward motion
what we call our passing on
—death
is another of time’s edges
it is not disappearance
but release—
a reawakening
of our universal awareness
a turning
from this chosen temporal form—
a refocusing again on our eternal motion
nothing essential ends
energy does not retire—
it changes form
changes circumstance
changes perspective—
our temporal self
eventually becomes a stranger
in a physical world—
a world turned incompatible
to our expiring body…
strange to our eternal self
and so
time sees it pass on—
as we resume
not as we’ve become
because we’ve always been—
an unbroken essence
of the body electric—-
in perpetual motion
of continuity—
and so — we resume…
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rob kistner © 12/28/25