Muse in the Morning
Muse in the Morning |
All that we are is the result
of what we have thought:
it is founded on our thoughts,
it is made up of our thoughts.
If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought,
pain follows him, as the wheel follows
the foot of the ox that draws the carriage.
–Dhammapada, verse 1
Phenomena XXVI: transgressing
Bruise
| Torture
How much
information
did you get
from the fly
after you picked off
its wings?
What intelligence
did you gain
from the butterfly
when you
crushed it
with water?
Did the squirrel
divulge secrets
concerning
a ticking bomb
as you
dissected it
Did you
move on
to people?
Knocking
the corners off
those
with too many
sandblasting
the surface
of those
too different
forcing into focus
the fuzzy people
is how some people
spend too much time
It’s a short step
from here to torture
Is it forward or back?
–Robyn Elaine Serven
–April 18, 2008 |
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Good morning. Be excellent to one another.
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3 comments
And appropros as I have two huge million leggers or whatever they’re called in my tub. I am girding myself to get some paper napkins and pick them up – take them downstairs and let them go in the garden. They’re not pretty or useful (as far as I know) but the older I get the less inclined I am to step on life of most any kind. I remember when I was a kid I used to catch the cabbage butterflies and rub their wings gently of the white powder. You know I still feel badly about that 65 years later – they couldn’t fly.
But wonderful writing, Robyn. Someone should put a melody to it!