Cosmic Tapestry
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
In the ever-unfolding
Tapestry of existence,
Man is but a mere stitch,
A transient phase
Woven into the grand design
That is Nature.
He is no island,
No isolate entity,
But rather an intricate strand,
Entangled in the cosmic threads
Of the world.
Only when man
Acknowledges his profound
Connection to Nature
Does he unlock
His true purpose,
His significance
Beyond the ephemeral veil
Of mortality.
It is in this recognition
That man's account,
His impact,
Becomes more than
Mere specks of dust
Scattered across
Rhe barren expanse.
In Nature's realm,
Man is but a humble disciple,
Subject to her unforgiving
Laws and enigmatic whims.
It is she who bestows
And she who takes away,
Her dominion unyielding,
Her power absolute.
And as man dances
Upon the precipice
Of her eternal majesty,
He comes to understand
That his own existence
Is but a fleeting whisper,
A fragile moment
Suspended
In the boundless river
Of time.
To matter,
To hold any semblance
Of weight,
Man must embody
The essence of Nature.
He must embrace
The relentless cycles
Of birth and death,
Of creation and destruction.
He must recognize
Rhe intricate
Interconnectedness
Of all living things,
Drawing sustenance
And inspiration
From the very marrow
Of the Earth.
Yet,
For all his efforts
To align with
The natural world,
Man often stumbles
Into the hubris
Of his own making.
Blinded
By his technological marvels,
He erects concrete jungles
And steel behemoths,
Severing the delicate
Threads that bind him
To Nature.
In his reckless pursuit
Of progress,
He forgets his place,
His purpose,
And unwittingly
Reduces himself
to a mere particle
suspended
in an atmosphere
Of human artifice.
But woe be unto those
Who dismiss
The primordial forces
That shape
Their very existence,
Because Nature
Will not remain silent.
She will rise,
Like a tempest
Unbound,
To reclaim
Her dominion,
Her raw power
Surging through stormy skies
And heaving earth.
And man,
In all his arrogance
And ignorance,
Will tremble
Before her wrath,
Confined once more
To the insignificance
Of dust.
It is in this delicate balance,
This symbiotic dance
Between man
And Nature,
That the truest stories lie.
Tales of heroism
And hubris,
Of beauty
And barbarity,
Woven into the very fabric
Of our collective
Consciousness.
Only through
The lens of Nature
Can man truly
Understand his place
In the cosmic tapestry,
Where even
The seemingly insignificant
Specks of dust
Can leave behind
A legacy
Of breathtaking
Significance.
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Written on July 08, 2023
Submitted by JoeStrickland on July 08, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
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Words | 542 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 15, 18, 17, 24, 23, 24 |
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