Sun and Water: On Life, Love & Laughter
Be thou with a sun
and be also with the water
As the rain permeates staunchest roof and trickles deep into
the ground
And the sun reaches into every tiny crack .
And confronts the rain by drying it and drawing it to itself
Only to form clouds that obscure its brightest beams
Together they are the fun of a rainbow.
Awash in the flow of light and of fluid
Feeling warmth and cold; wet and dry
Knowing the adversity of wet and cold
The comfort of warm and dry.
You can be conscious and yet not understanding.
For there is beauty in the stars and emotion in an ocean
But there is equal wonder in seeing a glimmer of light
reflected in the drop of water suspended upon a spiders web.
Let your eyes see beyond the pictures at an exhibition.
Own your time and each dawn will mount greater meaning
Nature will take care of itself to your doing or undoing
Take the sun and water each into yourself to be more with
The flow and the ebb.
The light and the dark.
As encompassing as an ocean.
As dependable as the dawn of the next day.
There is more comprehension in a laugh than in a lifetime of
study
As you accommodate each other as do the sun and the water
Revel in each drop of water for it makes Your ocean
And each glimmer of sunlight is Your hope for the dawn of
tomorrow.
Think of life
together not as a journey.
Life is the destination
Then you shall have Love as much as there are raindrops in
ocean or stars in galaxies.
And while you will know the torrent of a storm tossed sea
And the blinding brightness of a midday sun,
It will mean less than the glisten of a single tear from
your lovers eye.
Be thou with a sun
and be also with the water.
- Jerry Wendt
On occasion of their wedding St John, V.I April 26, 2005
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