Conditional Eternity

Every day's a new day
What can I expect?
From these subtle currents moving toward me
Should I pay them my respects?

Is it a movie that I enter?
Or is it a movie swallowing me?
Perhaps it's all just an illusion
Of all the things I hear, touch and see

When I wake up in the morning
From my nightmare into my daydream
As I take off another layer
Do I know it's not what it seems?

As I walk among the living
As I think of all the dead
Ever-changing faces smiling
Sighing, crying and all the rest

Right now I have this body
Soon I'll have another one
Every seven years it's changing
They will be old who now are young

I see the tortured trees reaching
Climbing high into the sky
This all came from just a seed
Chasing the sunlight and getting high

But what goes up must fall down
And what dies will be reborn
Round and round the cycle's spinning
To keep up with it makes me feel worn

If I could just somehow jump off this cliff
And catch hold of some sturdy twig
Growing out of the side of the mountain
Perhaps I would not lose my wig

But alas, it all is futile
Until I seek the mastermind
Who has covered us with this illusion
And who can make us go unblind

Then with sight perhaps I'll hanker
For the love that will set me free
Until then I'll keep on rotating
Through conditional eternity