Tuesday, November 26, 2013

The Cycle of Life

The rising sun- and it must set
and scours the dark to where it rises;
it has its ordained course to run,
and that it does with no surprises.

The winds will blow and sometimes roar
southwards, northwards, coursing free,
for this the cycle of all life
and who will call it mystery?

The streams will meet the snaking paths
of rivers racing to the sea,
a commingling of green and blue,
waves and ripples ever free.

This the cycle of all life,
and this the way ‘twill always be.
And we, the dwellers of the land
think we own eternity!

Do we pause to think our
ancestors breathed upon this terrain?
So will we be just forgotten
by our own coming generations.

This Earth, this Gala, will remain
while we will shout over lost terrain-
conflict, hatred, wars to fight,
exulting as the cities die.

Do we think of the cruel past?
The fall of empires, no lesson learn,
slaughtering our kind, we live
triumphant as the tropics burn.

And others will replace the dead
while souls forgotten anguished moan.
A life in cycles will go on,
the starving children, widows groan.

And what has been this history?
A tone of human misery?
What’s done will once again be done,

life’s cycle! not some sorcery!

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