THE POWER OF NOW AND THEN - Bruce Silverman

[Larry Robinson]

THE POWER OF NOW AND THEN


Now
And then
Are a spinning top:
A whirling blur of what 
May have occurred way back
 then in places like Egypt and at Mt. Sinai 
 But more recently Einstein and that quantum gang
Have informed us that now and then were one and the same.
You no doubt remember how Moses’ rod transformed into a snake
And soon after Hashem separated the Sea of reeds for the Hebrews
And so the sacred texts contain numerous moments where we see
That the stories in our hearts are not meant to be fact checked but
Are instead the ever-burning bushes illuminating one moment
That gets misconstrued as the retelling of a newspaper story
And even worse, an ironclad prediction of a cataclysm
When actually the biblical narrative circles around
The great mandala sparks of universal truths
That are forever living and rocking in the
Nestling arms of the great mysterious
Author Begetter and Originator 
Of all beginnings middles  
And endings of the one
Forever unfolding 
And amazing
Now


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