Oak Tree Meet
(another humanity)
let us withdraw
and sojourn in Nature
from this world
of labor and knowledge:
physical labor
destroys us
if we live to eat
knowledge
spoils us
if we fail to live
by what we know—
Nature redeems us!
like Halloween night children
let us tickle death
under the armpit
and laugh close to Nature
let us trick
the gods and goddesses
play hide and seek
fugitive to Nature:
for if we are ready or not
there “It” is coming!
let us sit
by the river of Life
watch
the meandering water
the crawling snake
the creeping vine
the sleeping rock
the roaring thunder
on the edge of the horizon
the flashing lightning
behind the mountain
and see eternity
in the grain of sand
let us come home
on the hilltop
and see
the coming shadow
of eaglet
soaring at a distance
the consuming beauty
of Being
that rises from the Earth
let us warm our cold
gross nonhumanness
feel the madness
battled within us
seen outside
let us return to the source
and pause and peep
through this window of the soul
to the unbounded expanse
beyond itself
beyond this humanity
is
another
humanity
across the burial mounds
of dead dynasties
dead empires
dead democrats
dead dictators
dead communists
dead fascists
near the shrines
of the living gods
and goddesses
is
another
humanity
called
NATURE.
Copyright © Assefa Dibaba | Year Posted 2015
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