Existence

What is it to exist?
Is it simply to be?
With life or without?
Animate or inanimate?
Do we always exist?
On a molecular level?
Long after we're dead?
Will there always be some evidence that we were?
Or are?
When do we begin?
At birth?
At conception?
Or are we always present?
Energy, waiting for a vessel?
When do we end?
At death?
Do we end?
Or do we go on?
In some form?
Will we learn the answer?
Do we spend our time trying to figure it all out?
Or do we just enjoy what we have?
Now?
Then?
In the future?
Or never?
Always?
Questions, curiosity, only to propagate more of the same?
Is that what it's all about?
Existence?

Carey Parrish
March 2012