Hear the Wind

Hear the Wind

Hear the wind;

                It speaks with the voices

                                Of a trillion tongues.

Hear the wind;

                It howls with the agonies

                                Of a trillion wounds.

Hear the wind:

                It whispers with the pleas

                                Of a trillion cries.

Hear the wind;

                It carries the hopes

                                Of a trillion dreams.

Hear the wind;

It reverberates

With the sound

Of every creature

That ever lived.

Hear the wind;

                It whispers

                                Of forever.

Opher 18.2.2024

Every sound that ever was is still there. It spreads out as vibrations in the atoms of the air and ground; vibrations that grow ever fainter but never completely disappear.

In miniscule, imperceptible reverberations everything that ever lived on this planet speaks to us on the wind.

It’s a whimsy.

It will not last forever. Nothing does.

But for now I like to feel connected to the wonder of all existence on this tiny rock. We are connected.

It’s mystical.

Hear the wind. Feel the sun. Touch the ground. We are connected.

All One

All One

All from one –

                A single cell –

                                Sipping magic

From the infinite well.

A unique fire,

                Within a sea,

                                Exploding outwards,

Producing we.

Expanding force,

                So unique.

                                A display of art,

Full of mystique.

From chemical

                To awareness.

                                Its insane beauty

Could not prepare us.

In all the worlds

                Throughout all time

                                Was never a creation

So divine.

Covering the surface

                Of this jewel;

                                All from one

And one from all.

Opher – 22.4.2021

Life – the biggest, greatest, most wonderful spectacle in the whole universe.

Life. Starting just once.

From that magic cell, across billions of years, spreading like a forest fire, it rampaged across the planet to fill every nook and cranny.

Life. A mystery of wonder. The most unlikely event.

Just once.

Mutating to create every more elaborate form – ever more wondrous art.

Evolving.

Seeing, hearing, touching, feeling. Giving purpose to the universe.

Without us nothing is perceived. The wonders unappreciated.

Our joy and privilege is to perceive. Nothing more.

We are the eyes of the universe.

A happy accident.

All from one.

And we are but a tiny part of it all.