Now, when we were small we were totally sure
the stars wouldn’t move as we scanned the great sky,
and we knew enough, with no need to know more.
Did we ever question, or think to ask why?
We lay on our backs and could feel the earth move,
so why should we need to know why the sky’s blue?
The grass was all tickly, we’d nothing to prove.
Our tastes were quite simple, essentials so few.
But now that I’m older, I ask what’s my place?
And life goes around in birth, marriage and death.
I look in the mirror now, look at my face,
And wonder what happens ‘tween first and last breath.
We circle and spin in perpetual motion
and outgoing tides are the tides of all men,
the incoming tides just the breath of the ocean
and these tides will turn, and then turn once again.
So what is this life? Is it all love or lust?
And why are we here on this merry-go-round?
Is life only ashes, then dust into dust?
Am I just a clock that’s been too tightly wound?
I know that in circles we'll spiral tonight,
as we in our universe grow and expand,
where love’s all that matters and we bask in light-
in all of creation we’ll feel Spirit’s Hand.
So, gyred and whorling, we’re here by Design,
we're helixes, vortexes, one giant wheel,
created as humans, with purpose divine -
beginnings and endings will never be real.
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Author Notes
abab rhyme scheme of course - meter is one iambic, followed by three anapestic feet - one variation with a feminine ending, lines 1 and 3 in Verse 5 (but I love an occasional feminine ending and I hope you do to!) I've written this one to be put to music - a waltz - the 4th verse would be used as the refrain and be used as a last verse as well, but I didn't want to wear out my welcome!
gyre
1. A circular or spiral form; a vortex: "rain swirling the night into tunnels and gyres" (Anthony Hyde).
2. A circular or spiral motion, especially a circular ocean current.
intr.v. gyred, gyr·ing, gyres
To whirl.
[Latin grus, from Greek gros.]
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whorl. whorling
1. A form that coils or spirals; a curl or swirl: spread the icing in peaks and whorls.
2. Botany An arrangement of three or more leaves, petals, or other organs radiating from a single node.
3. Zoology A single turn or volution of a spiral shell.
4. One of the circular ridges or convolutions of a fingerprint.
5. Architecture An ornamental device, as in stonework or weaving, consisting of stylized vine leaves and tendrils.
6. A small flywheel that regulates the speed of a spinning wheel.
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vortex:
In fluid dynamics, a vortex is a region within a fluid where the flow is mostly a spinning motion about an imaginary axis, straight or curved
A small note on sure/more as rhymes - in Australia they're pronounced as perfect rhymes, right down to the same vowel and final 'r' (not pronounced) - so think shaw/maw, ok?
Now, if you want to sing the waltz, don't forget the first strong beat will be on the SECOND syllable of each line, the first beat either being a 'hold' note (musically) or a small quickie note. Good to bear this in mind when reading aloud, too - you'll have to take it a bit on BIRTH marr iage DEATH :)
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