If only you could see yourselves as I do

O’ humanity

You would realize the futility

Of searching for a common current

On which we could all float together

 

For each one will find his way back

From whence we all came

 

If only for a second you could realize

The unity that we already share

The kinship

The relatedness

Oh! You would see for sure

 

And if I could embrace you

You poets

You rebels

You saints

That have happened my way

You would know that my soul leaps with love

At the very thought that you might smile

That you might know pure bliss

Some day

 

©2009 by PGV (wayf)

 

 

 

peace, wayf

There is nothing new here

 

The grass continues to grow under my feet

And the sun, fat and orange, came up

Over the same hedgerow

As it does each morning

 

The birds still sang sweetly

And the morning air

Was a cooling comfort as usual

 

My dear wife greeted me with

The same, sweet smile

And I kissed her

Before she fixed my breakfast

Like always

 

No...

There’s nothing new here

And I thank God for it

 

 

peace, wayf

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. 

For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God

- I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. 

~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

 

peace, wayf

 Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well. 

 

~John Greenleaf Whittier

 

Whenever I see sunbeams coming through clouds, it always looks to me like God shining himself down onto us.  The thing about sunbeams is they're always there even though we can't always see them.  Same with God. 

~Adeline Cullen Ray

 

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peace, wayf