Wednesday, July 10, 2013

A story


At the beginning,
in time before time,
two droplets of water roamed together
in the primordial earth--
one oval and beautiful,
and one elongated, a bit rough on the edges.

Then it rained
like it had never rained before,
as the earth was thirsty from the beginning of time.

As it rained, the two droplets,
one oval and beautiful,
and the other a bit rough on the edges,
                        came close.

Did they feel love?
Did they fall in love?
Who could tell?

As it rained down, so did the two droplets
and became separated upon falling on earth's surface.
The two of them, apart,
searched for one another.
Being water droplets, they didn't have memory of the other,
but was happy to move on and live on.

Somewhere there though, in the grand scheme of things,
there was this longing, this feeling that
two things that belonged together, were not together.
If they had feelings, the droplets would've felt
sad and melancholy for the loss of beloved,
happy and joyful for they gave life to the living.
And so they lived, giving life to the living.

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One day,
in one of many days,
the sun rose and asked of the ocean
for two droplets of water.
From distant oceans rose two droplets,
(two very droplets of water rose!),
One oval and another a bit rough on the edges,
missing something in their beings, though they knew not.

As they rose, the felt the pull
of something inevitable,
something waiting to happen since time before time.

They rose and rose until their thirst from traveling
was quenched and cooled.
They became a part of the silvery dark cloud
just above the horizon.
Not knowing that they had been missing each other,
the two droplets felt joy and only joy
in finding each other.
Something felt right in the universe in that moment.

Having cooled in each other's touch,
they thrilled in the fall to earth's surface.
Exhilarating, lustful, momentous the fall was,
the journey was an epic.
There were kisses, for having found each other,
and there were tears, as somewhere in their beings,
they knew they would also lose each other.

As they broke off their embrace,
they looked forward
and having been water droplets,
retained no memory of who they were holding moments ago.

They started on their path again,
with this subsurface anticipation of a union in all of their being.

The universe sighed
and watched over them
until their next union,
if they ever meet again.

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