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Poetry by Peter D. Orr
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Engagement and Resignation Eternity touches down at a single point Coiling itself up into each vital moment. At those times we can choose To cast our gaze to the Ultimate Perspective... Where the dawn and dusk meet to shake hands Where midday and midnight stand And greet the forever-now. Yet so often when the finger of Fate Reaches down To touch the ground We stand there like some helpless sleuth Searching in vain For the traces of prints left behind From the instant of creation And we draw back in pain and doubt... Shrinking from the task of perpetual engagement Seeking instead a quietly detatched truth. But the endless maze of human struggle for discovery Does not stand as a dark mystery. Rather, it winds in and around Life and Being, Revelation and Meaning And shines like a priceless medallion For all who revel in the Ultimate Cause: The convergence of the moment of creation With the very instant in which we exist. |