Humans have a natural aversion to any kind of change because they are creatures of habit and anything that might disrupt their routine or culture already established is generally met with resistance. The body, having experienced death, has already made a permanent change, but not the spirit of the deceased. Rather than leaving quickly after death, the spirit remains with the body, sitting “next to it, on a small rock…” (3), seemingly reluctant to leave. Again, in the second stanza, the reader is confronted with the spirit's desire to remain in what was once its home when it takes the form of a shadow and wraps itself around the body. The mind, at this stage of the poem, knows that nothing will come to “restore it shape…” (4), but it nevertheless tries to resist the inevitable change it must make during its “long journey” (8). . This type of behavior is typical of humans when faced with permanent change. Despite the inevitability of such a permanent change as "moving on," the mind still attempts to remain in its previous state of existence, even though such a thing is impossible now that the body has