Ashes to Ashes

Ashes to Ashes

Dust to Dust

Ashes are not the same as the fire that spawned them

Does dust not hold the same value?

Ashes are born of light, of fire, of energy.

But the ashes are not the same as the fire that spawned them.

Ashes are cold

Exhausted of light

Of heat

Of energy

Yet are the ashes not the product of the flames?

Energy to plain matter

Matter to plain energy

But then there is dust.

Dust is born of the stone.

Stone that lacks heat, energy, or light.

Stone is Stone. Dust is part of stone. Dust is dust.

Yet does dust not hold its own intrinsic value?

Stone is cold, but it can be warmed.

Stone lacks light, but is it not born of the sun?

Stone lacks energy in itself, but if you throw a stone it can hurt.

The ancients say that Humans are made from dust

Yet Human’s stomachs create fires to make ashes

And Humans have learned to make fire,

To make light, to make energy, to make heat.

Never should one underestimate the power of stone.

Stone to stone

Stone to dust

Ashes to ashes

And dust to dust.