Once – a poem

Once

 

Only once!

Amazing!

In eternity,

Out of nothing,

Into something!

From mineral

To animal!

From mindless

To conscious!

Aware

Of how

Once

There was nothing!

Amazing!

 

Opher 12.5.2019

 

 

There are the usual amazing things that boggle my mind – Like how a whole universe of zillions of stars came out of nothing – or how a bunch of minerals on a tiny planet in a minor galaxy all came together to form something that we describe as being alive – or how that life evolved to create feelings, consciousness and was even able to contemplate the wonders around it.

Amazing!

But hey – I don’t feel the need to create something even more fantastical to explain it. I’m content to be boggled.

Once – a poem

Once

 

Once the land lived.

It hummed

With a trilling of wings.

A rustle of green leaves

And the thud of many hooves.

 

Now it is only the wind

That hums

And rustles brown leaves

And the only thud

Is that of tree trunks.

 

Opher 1.5.2019

 

 

I truly despair at the massive destruction we are causing all over the world as we casually cut down the rainforests for profit.

Places so full of life are reduced to deserts.