Something I Know

SOMETHING I KNOW                    

I know Mother Earth wants us
to hear her wisdom.
She tells me God is watching and
waiting for our enlightenment.
She tells me the floods, firestorms,
disease and pestilence are
His signs that we're
not paying attention.

I know man thinks he is
the master of his universe.
I know he is wrong.
I know we are but
a speck of sand
blowing across
the dunes of infinity.

I know our speck cannot plot
another’s journey,
yet drifts ever searching,
often clinging to the grit
of other sand specks
for refuge
from life’s storms.

I know God is patient,
yet longs for His Sand Sculpture
to form into the Masterpiece
only He can conceive.

I know time is of no consequence
to a sand pebble
and that some are set
on difficult paths,
traversing raging oceans
and rocky terrains,
only to be delivered into the
cavernous abyss of an incubus.

I know that some
sand pebbles float across
the ivory dunes,
sustained by the breath of
enlightenment and renewal,
transcendently evolving
into glistening jewels,
while lighting the path for others.

I know that which we sometimes
think is important,
'tis nothing more than
the trivia of folly
and takes us even further
from our pebble’s path.
But, one thing
I absolutely do know is....
The          
course            
is ours                       
alone to                                 
direct.