imaginings

somewhere and somehow i thought i was more than the sum of my parts. more than bone plus meat plus blood plus electricity plus a few assorted oddments and bits. more than energy in equals energy out. somewhere in that equation i thought there was a soul. 21 grams that mysteriously disappears between lifespark and dead ember. i was mistaken. the sum of the parts is the soul and the self. the electrical current that flows through this meat, the meat itself, the blood and the bile and the bone, that is the soul. the lifespark is not separate from the body or the mind. the three are inseparable and turning off one turns off the others as well. it is a simple switch to flip off, but it requires a key to turn back on.