What is there on this earth
What is there on this earth
that is not of this earth
and what profusion of identities
from a single source
Every temper and temperament
under the sun is here
and all things cohere and coalesce
and all things increase
and all things diminish
all caught in the curve ball
of time so that age goes
before beauty
and we are bold enough to ask
how old is eternity
how wide infinity
and question all
that the earth affirms
knowing that our every step
will be counted
that all our actions
will be judged
and with every failure to love
our souls will be marked down
for all time
John Lyons