Learning impermanence raises a new question: What causes the river to run? |
Gravity Where does this stream begin? In the mountains of the north, or the clouds above? Could it be the source is the sea that breeds the clouds and the rain? Could it be the current comes from the spin of the globe and then . . . Could it be that gravity that tireless force that we can not see, the force that causes naturally . . . . Could it be . . . . . could it be the attraction between all things— the force of love? Look at the stars in the night In the skies of the north, In the holes in the clouds. Could it be the collisions in space The very creation of stars, driven by the force of orbits . . . Could it be the current The happening, our God, the tireless force we do not see Could it be the constant clock maker The eternal rhythm made by the stars round the galaxy, the force holding them to me . . . Could it be . . . . . could it be . . . the attraction between all things— the force of love? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This poem is from "Bottle in the River" about a Poet's journey down a river, chasing a bottle tossed by the fingertips of "that I am." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written within the parameters of the theory of "Multivalence" |