<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Living At The End Of Time<div><br></div><div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">There is so much sweetness in children’s voices,</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">And so much discontent at the end of day,</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">And so much satisfaction when a train goes by.</div><br><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">I don’t know why the rooster keeps crying,</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">Nor why elephants keep raising their trunks,</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">Nor why Hawthorne kept hearing trains at night.</div><br><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">A handsome child is a gift from God,</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">And a friend is a vein in the back of the hand,</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">And a wound is an inheritance from the wind.</div><br><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">Some say we are living at the end of time,</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">But I believe a thousand pagan ministers</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">Will arrive tomorrow to baptize the wind.</div><br><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">There’s nothing we need to do about John. The Baptist</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">Has been laying his hands on earth for so long</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">That the well water is sweet for a hundred miles.</div><br><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">It’s all right if we don’t know what the rooster</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">Is saying in the middle of the night, nor why we feel</div><div style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em; ">So much satisfaction when a train goes by.</div></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Robert Bly</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><br></span></div></body></html>