Seasons of the Heart

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, February 5, 2006

Does nature feel the conflict
that in the human heart does dwell?
Or in nature is all peace and right,
an abiding sense all will be well?

The raging storm, the bitter night,
all mean tempests of the day,
can seem but nature’s deeper way to say
we reflect her moods, her tempers, and her sway.

But is there conflict there, in nature, as well,
or merely cycles, seasons, gradual change,
and transformation’s elegance and grace?

If we, too, could match the seasons of our days
with seasons of our hearts,
and let our consciousness spin a web
that flows from mood to mood, and day to day,
then we, too, might be children of nature at last:
freed from the torment’s of the human mind
and the blessing and curse of consciousness.

But so is our torment (and our greatest gift):
to contemplate, feel, and know
as we transform and change and grow.
There burns within us yet that eternal fire
to want to know the deeper reason why
that on this bright green Earth we live and die.

jbs
11/14/02 - 2/6/06

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