thoughts on death and divorce; lovers on the stream of time, the soul and the body

thoughts on death and divorce; lovers on the stream of time, the soul and the body

fiction
edward w pritchard

footnotes and source credits  later

Traveling as lovers propelled on the stream of time I know what will happen years later, how things will end; when you warn me you will leave after a reasonable period of time.

Now I cling to you too tightly knowing one day you will unravel; I retreat into magical thoughts concerning our time together as I rehearse our break-up our eternal time apart.

Longing for the right to stay in your presence I become flighty and awkward; fears grow in me until I am not me and you are not you.

You are the body and I am the soul. I long to ask you how much longer do we have together? This can't happen we apart. I refuse to accept it.

You who would lovers be on the stream of time accept that the soul and the body will part. So revert to magical thinking to relive and retain the security of union. The sacred continuation as life.

Rationalize that there is order in the chaos of the split of the body and the soul. Re- remember when the body gave you overly elaborate directions to find it. How alone together separated from the world you two secretly huddled under your cloak. Time stood still then. For now re-live the utopia of your edited past.

or

Be Realistic about the coming separation of the body and the soul. Decay and destruction are necessary, part of nature. Fall back on existence as a cycle, you will meet over and over in time united in eternal recurrence.

or

Things could continue in a steady state, we live on biologically through our offspring and the continuation of the species.

or

Maybe there are many universes with many variant times and outcomes, in forked time you will exist again in many versions and variations.

or

Escape, the soul is alone but I am only sleeping for a long long time.

Who would lovers be accept the separation and alienation of the body and the soul. You were foreordained to drift eternally apart and alone on the stream of time.

end
to time with tongue in cheek
heading "your divorce recovery document 3"