Nor Any Drop

                                                 Brenda Bryant

WATERY WEDNESDAY

NOR ANY DROP

'Nor any drop to drink' and all that jazz.

Wetness is something that the ocean has.

But if I were impatient for a drink

I'd leave the salty ocean out, I think.

How good it is that, when we're parched and dry

Refreshing purity comes from the sky!

How rain at sea must seem to shipwrecked men!

They'll long for it to come and come again.

I feel I want to make my hands a cup

And catch the drips and drink the water up.

'Water, water everywhere', indeed,

But give us blessed rain when we're in need.

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TAKE YOUR PICK

Tick one of these answers.

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One of them is true

Yet I cannot cope

With either of them.

Where does that leave me?

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Yes, the Universe has a limit.

It is like a glass sphere

With motes of dust

Dancing in it.

If one could fly to its outer limit,

One would reach

A great globular window.

Ah, but what would we see through it?

Maybe we would see nothing.

But how can one see

What is unseeable?

Maybe we would see something.

But what?

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Alternatively,

Yes, the Universe is limitless.

It just goes on for ever

In a way that is incomprehensible

To the human mind.

My brain rejects endlessness

As impossible.

My head aches

As soon as the word 'endless'

Occurs.

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Maybe there is another state

Involving unlimited limitation.

This state may be beyond

The frail human consciousness.

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Certainly mine.

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