Limerick

NATURE AND THE FINGER
Nature
Impersonal inescapable
Beautiful generous yet unsympathetic
Life
Human’s animals and plants
They live their short time
Here, yet gone in a instant
Their places filled so fast
Scarcely missed
The oceans the mountains
The stars the sky’s seem to last
Yet even they change and die
Their time appears not as abrupt
Geological universal age cosmos
Earthly physical epoch
Death
Everything known and unknown
Born merely to end
Place your finger in a pool of water
Remove it
What is left is entirely what was
Were we ever here
Look into the motionless pool of water
Unchanged unaffected as if untouched
We see we never were
The universe is a larger pool
The finger thus far not removed
We are just insignificant fools
Nature beautiful generous unsympathetic
Infinite immeasurable so vast
Remove the finger and thus heavens existence will not last


willis