1. On Motivation
All power flows from death
it is the law
life is the arena
we are all here
scythes set in motion
what must not be still
stagnancy does not beget evolution.
time does.
2. This poem appears to make the claim that without death, there would be no reason for life to evolve, or even begin. life is compared to an arena, symbolizing the irony that death is the goal as well as the penalty, if existence is compared to a sport. scythes symbolize death as a primum mobile. at the end of the poem death is related to time, perhaps stating that death would not exist without time, as there would be no way to mark endings and beginnings. we can see a relation here to the greek god chronos, or the roman god saturn, who always appeared with a scythe in his hands and an hourglass on his head.
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