For almost 100% of human beings,
we are completely forgotten
in less than five generations

Our names may still be 
on a piece of paper somewhere
    —an electric bill; a signed check—
but those who knew us
in the flesh will have 
also Moved On

    So what’s the point, then?

The point is this, at least
in terms of physics:
you are a completely unique feature
of the universe–
there has never been
someone made exactly like you
(not even if you have a twin),
nor will there ever be again

    and (bonus!)

you walk a path through 
spacetime that exists
only because you are
creating it

your name and likeness
is not the part of you that
changes the universe–permanently–
it is the part of you that choose to act:

    to say–or not say
    to do–or not do

each choice you make
may not seem to change 
the entire universe,
but that is only because
we are blinded by scale:

(the ant on the sidewalk means little to us, but our descending foot means everything to the ant)

but trust me, you matter–

you will create
and you will destroy

and it is entirely up to you
where the balance point lays