(Poem) Significance

There’s no significance but existence

(Claimed poet Fernando Pessoa)

Yet to exist I aspire to be significant

To leave a trail revealing who I am

With billions of inhabitants and

Evolving artificial intelligence

It’s difficult to become notable

Without thoughts that are unique

Yet manifold replicated DNA sequences

And stunted environmental diversity

Diminishes the prospect of anyone

Ever claiming dominion over a mindset

If a clone of myself has been born

And more yet to be conceived

Why shall I toil to claim significance

And assume a manner of importance

It’s in the isolation of my home

And the splendor of imagination

I am the earth’s greatest writer

As long as not beyond my door

And with the passion and emotion

Shared with those I keep company

I’ve created a world in which I’m one

Exceptional by the love they’ve returned

The track to who I’ve become

Courses under a shelter of love

At the end of which are memories of

A life lived accompanied in pleasure