Immortality

IMMORTALITY When you look into your daughter’s brown eyes And see the eyes of your own mother long gone But still smiling there, and understand that she Too will hear something of you in her own son’s sighs; When you pass a bearded hobo in a thunderstorm Standing on the bridge and in a flash you see that the world Is filled with such people, and that Christ himself Also stood like that on the road to Jerusalem; When you hear a nightingale and marvel as you realize That all nightingales have sung the same song From time immemorial; Or see a butterfly and admire its colors in surprise As Roman soldiers did before battle for Rome’s fame; And know that your daughter’s daughter will chase Almost the same butterfly around some Future garden of perennials, almost the same; When time ceases to have meaning for you Because you realize instinctively that you see and feel All the same experiences people have always felt : Then, with the universe you become one and true - And you live forever. ........................................................................................... (Theme = Cosmic Consciousness) Written By Sydney Peck Entered in Debbie Guzzi’s Contest DeLIGHT, Good Vibrations