The song of forever, the dance of now

Before the world began… did our Creator
contemplate the way it should begin?
the sweetest way to animate and order
all this glorious whole contains within?

The Hindus have no doubt: a sound, a dance,
were our beginning; every molecule
of Shiva’s body dances to the song;
his soul the music of eternal rule:

so should we dance our way through mortal life,
eternal music in our inner ear;
so make our life a flowing song, a flight
that sings immortal ether into air;

a sound, a dance, a rhythm; harmony;
from which soars each soul’s unique poetry..

poem by Michael Shepherd
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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