The Water Lily

                 

                                                                                                  Moyer

THREE WORD WEDNESDAY

http://www.threewordwednesday.com/2011/08/3ww-cclv.html

'adapt, glide, lie'

THE WATER LILY

So when the Great Change comes,

And the world around us alters,

And the seas rise up and warm

And everything living falters,

Will we adapt like the water-lily

Floating on a pond,

Managing survival

To forever and beyond?

The water lily seeks for soil

Yet it has learned to float,

It lies upon the water

Like a fragile petalled boat.

Dragonflies glide above it;

The little fish swim below;

It does not live in a garden

Yet it has learned to grow.

Our altered situation

Need not mean that we are trapped;

Over evolution's aeons

Mankind may adapt.

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SHADOW SUN

Shadow is not shadow, if sunshine isn't sun.
One only recognises both because of the other one.
Shadow without sunshine is just a murky day.
And sunshine without shadow is the sun's unending ray.
A little bit of this and that completes a pleasant scene!
See how the shadow and the sun create different shades of green!
If our lives were just endless torment how ghastly it would be!
If our lives were just endless pleasure, oh, what monotony!
Sunshine and shade together create a rounded life.
I wish you lots of happiness....... balanced by a little strife!
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