Today’s word is “vis-á-vis” ... in relation to; compared with. (Dictionary.com)
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What are we upon this earth?
Who are we, here, vis-á-vis
who we could be ...
should be?
What makes us think there
is more than this brief span?
Something important watching,
Something real, yet ...
hidden?
If there were no mystery in all of this,
or if we lived forever, what then?
Would we lull ourselves to sleep with love?
Would we be thankful for delicate detail ...
a baby’s hands, translucent wings,
perfect petals on a nearly invisible flower,
Or the unnecessarily beautiful colors that
decorate a minuscule underwater slug?
Or the intricate code that makes us who we are?
Maybe it is brevity that opens our eyes wide,
wide enough to behold this world.
Anne Selleck
Copyright 2020
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