Let us rest in knowing
that in this way, we unite:
our lives are short,
in sleep, we dream,
and if the brain did not waken us
to death, our bodies would it entrust
A dash of life, like salty sands
that sift through the hourglass of time,
we leave this world as quickly as we arrived.
In this, we should all rest in knowing
that we are more alike than not,
and in this life, fragile as a tiny tot