It was surely nothing that I could have done, at least not with this
puny conscious effort
I
was simply borne along like a tiny fallen leaf which started down
upon one little stream
Delivered
far away from the roots of the tree that bore myself and many others
And
as luck would have it, my life was pretty easy, though surely not
filled with good
I
got away, but I really haven’t a clue as to how - Or much, much
less, just why
Awoke
in safety at a distance, washed up in honest surprise and amazed
gratitude
So
filled with happiness by the anonymous mercy that tears swelled my
eyes
No
way this blind and stumbling random walk I had just pursued got me
here on my own
Yes,
I did see the innocent masses lined up barefoot, dirty, sickened and
hungry
But,
someway, somehow, I was never chosen to shuffle along silently among
them
I
got away, but never did I even have a clue as to where I might be
fleeing
Looking
back I saw so many fatal accidents I had so narrowly and mysteriously
avoided
Not
through goodness, mercy, charity or selflessness did I find myself
living like some king
It
seems as though protected by an unseen guiding hand when viewed in
this fuzzy retrospect
But
that same hand bore down upon my comrades for their whole time from
birth to death
All
of us as fated, as if by chance, like any fragile butterfly, tossed
in winds and storms
Like
the one of a hundred million salmon fry that somehow returned to
spawn
My
life a series of mostly unseen and un-noticed Just In Times and By A
Single Threads…
Venal
and ugly as I was, it appeared as if my shortsighted greed was always
rewarded
Others
explained their random motions in this great entropy as being blessed
or even great
I
burned with that one tree within thousands of mountain acres where
lightning struck
My
amazing, unexpected, skin of the teeth upset was pulled off with no
time remaining
A
drunk laughing and singing in the high-speed wreckage wrapped around
that large tree
Letting
dumb luck fill my selfish ego with a fictional sense of divine
entitlement
Inexplicably
expelled by the roaring torrent, I peacefully observe from this quiet
eddy
I
got away by the unconscious grace of the same blind forces that
steered us one and all
My
tiny efforts within the maelstrom could not have hoped to produce
this wondrous effect
Like
a miracle baby found unharmed amid vast death and wreckage, I simply
smile
Tossed
by unimaginable forces that I could not see, I made up an explanation
as I went along
Just
as unforeseen as the dragonfly on my bumper, I still take pride in my
great strength
Too
full of myself to notice the great emptiness in total control of my
irrelevant destiny
Laughably
worrying that I had time to waste, I raced about leaving tiny,
ephemeral tracks
I
got away into this safe and quiet place for a bit of contemplation at
the common brink
Having
evaded the normal life of poverty and suffering, I still hear their
muffled cries
I
marvel at how it all happened, even as my confusion over why grows
ever stronger
Briefly
holding this still life of an insignificant instant in a nano-sized
corner of the multiverse
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