Understanding of Unity Among All Living Things
We arrive dumb as stumps, wailing as if we
already knew the inevitability of outcomes
Why did we not laugh instead, foreseeing joy,
or simply remain mute in the moment, suggesting
sudden premonition—> the instant awareness
that life would bring both understanding
and awareness, all provoked by the
shock of sudden light accompanied by
a background chorus of loud exclamations
expressing both relief and happiness
at our arrival?
After all, fish (as we understand),
or birds, (as we expect),
or every living creature, (as it seems),
every being born arrives with the
intent of survival, new life brought forth
by acts of love (in the best and
deepest sense of the word).
But instead we cry, we wail at our advent
as if we already knew this new condition
would be of both darkness and light
depending upon chance, and our
choice of disposition.
Jim Culleny
5/20/26
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