By Gill Jury, Creative Writing group 1

I am immortal. Let me explain.
I transmute, you see.
When one of my journeys is over, I immediately start another.
I cannot die. I am immortal.

Maybe you think I’m a parasite, that I feed off other creatures
But nothing could be further from the truth.
They feed off me. So what am I?
I am energy.

From the sun comes warmth which sets off
Huge and unending chains of events.
Heat jump-starts Life in all its myriad forms.
I am the weather
and the wind,
the swell of the ocean,
the grinding down of rocks
to fine sand.
Energy is Life.
Devoid of life, a leaf is dead,
an insect, a bird,
reptile, mammal,
grass, trees,
the world itself.
You.

You yourself are immortal for just as the tide and waves crash onto the
shore, so energy is transferred from the wave to the ground it strikes, changing it
imperceptibly. That is energy moving on. Energy cannot die. And one day you too
will run out of energy. An empty shell. Just the carrier.
But the energy that was ‘you’?
That lives on.
Truly … you are stardust.