How Can There Be an Ultimate End in Death, When All of Nature is Cyclic?

How can there be an end
when the sun sets or
the moon goes down?
It looks like the end;
It seems like a sunset;
But in reality it is a dawn . . .
Have you ever seen
a seed fallen to earth
not rise with a new life?
Why should you doubt the rise
of a seed named “human”?
Have you ever seen
a bucket lowered into a well
coming back empty?
Why lament for a soul
when it can come back
like Joseph from the well?

Jelaluddin Rumi

Photo: Pasqueflower emerging through the snow, Lory State Park, CO, March 25, 2016
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