Sunday June 1
A firming in
a determined bright swift flight
a patient waiting
A great sea sat in a faraway land
within its bounds creatures lived
such as never had been seen by
eyes human
And it's name was Tethis
and it's time
was long.
Beneath a blazing cauldron
huge plates of simmering rock
tore from each other
and the land began to move
and great continents grew
and mountains soared into the sky
for miles and miles
and stand there to this day.
And a land climbed from ocean bottom
with them.
And it's name was Tibet
and it remains.
A land of soaring skies,
and sharp edged light,
and impassable chasms,
where wisdom grows
as natural as the elements.
And from it a people sprang,
fierce and independent,
a land of horses
yaks and nomads,
kings and queens
and in them the nature
that when the wisdom
came from the lands below
they took it as their own
to become a compassionate,benevolent nation
that valued principle and wisdom
over power and pride,
and held the land and all its creatures
in reverent love and respect
Until the days of 1949,
when another people came
and a story
so sad, so long replayed
it needs not a single illustration
human inhumanity.
They live on,
and struggle on,
to hold their wisdom,
of life harmony,
beneath the politics
of the barrel of a gun
and a world only lately
brought to notice.
Two immortal souls passed each other
in the middle of the day,
And upon that path,
she silently said to him:
I will bring us our shared shelter
from the harsh elements
of human ridicule and deception
And he silently replied to her:
the rain that wets your hair
swift gentle one,
will not wash away,
what is now truly yours.
And together we'll work,
to be the shelter,
of beings who are defenseless.
And so,
after a time,
that is what they did.
May 29*
* picture courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions!