“Dying” - original oil painting from the 10-piece Human Nature series. Original collection by Adrianne Tamar Arachne.
24”x36” wood panel.
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”Dying”
by Adrianne Tamar Arachne

Do I know the Earth I’ll return to?

I’m going to spend far longer 

Buried beneath it

Then I ever will 

Moving on it’s surface.

As I walk this road

Dying, towards death, 

And move deeper and deeper 

Down, down, down, 

Into layers of the underneath,

I pass the bones of everything 

That once walked, breathed, and hunted 

And, I remember 

that I am just bones, myself 

Briefly animated in flesh 

Soon to return 

To the marrow of history,

The sinew of the future 

And ultimately, 

The great beneath.

As my bones join the millions of bones 

That have gone before me 

Perhaps, 

If I die well,

I will learn that dear things 

Lives, and stories, 

Are never gone

Just buried

In an eternal archive
That is the heart

Of the Earth itself. 

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Poem and Painting shipped together.