Beauty Continues
While countries, armies
and ideologies battle, bees
make honey. Butterflies
float, and drink the nectar
from gently open flowers.
While spouses, neighbors,
bosses and workers quarrel,
the sun still sets, and rises.
Brings color, splendor.
To snow-hatted mountains,
old growth forests,
bird-filled meadows.
The moon still shines.
Upon the faces of oceans
and lakes, fjords and
flowing rivers. On fish-filled
bays; clear streams and tarns,
tide pools of mussels,
anenomes, sea stars.
While attentions,
actions turn
to ungraced choices
and places of being,
unlovely behaving,
in the world’s towns
and villages, houses
and metropolises,
beauty everywhere,
ever here, ever pure,
continues.
Colin Goedecke
Morristown, New Jersey
November 2017
