April 17, 1989
How can it be that the grass comes again, springing up out
of the holes of worms, grass blades with joyous faces climbing towards the heat
of the sun after months of death, and winter's crush?
How can it be the leaves return, as if crawling up the bark
of trees from which they have fallen, shedding the brilliantly colored death
robes they adorned in fall for the pale yellow green of this cold season, their
graves unable to resist their urge or cease the ever gnawing roots that feed them?
How can it be that fish swim again after living in ice caked
waters, stirring back to life after the frosts of winter fade, digging
themselves out of the mud, their faces still stained from the graveling
hardships of devouring bits of stuff from the dirty river bottom?
How can it be that planets and stars blew out from their
single cosmic egg, reaching, ever reaching, only to contract again, to return
to the soul of the egg, only to erupt once more, in a cosmic love-making that
creates new realms, new heavens, new life?
How can we think ourselves different – that we along in
this huge universe live and die forever, lacking something in our soul and
intelligence that is not denied the simplest blade of grass, the weariest fish,
the small speck in the sky?
How is it we dare think we, too, do not come again?
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