HOW OLD IS MY SOUL AT BIRTH?

...by Poetic Tee "Here, take a sip"

Title: How Old Is My Soul
Type: Free Verse
Stanza: Tercet
Theme: Philosophy
Meter: 7 syllable counts (except one line, which is it?)

About: This piece is actually a curious question many of us make a mistake when answering. But the truth is laid bare in the poem. Ponder and reflect, you'll see that we are truly not what is being presented to our psyche...

Enjoy it please.......

How old is the soul at birth?
How old is my "I" right now?
How old will it be at death?

Many mistake the body's
For the soul's age. What error!
One within, one without. True.

Is it a day old at delivery?
40 years at maturity?
A million ticks off eternity?

I am as old as my soul
Older than my beginning
Yet, younger than my end.

A divine breath, I must "Be"
Traveling faster than a ray
Slower than my standing still.

Timeless, spaceless, volumeless,
Piercing through heaven's blackness
In a light, pervading all realms.

I started before dawn, fresh
I'll continue past the end
Don't you see, the soul's ageless.

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