Continuities
by Walt Whitman
(1819-1892)
Nothing is ever really lost, or
can be lost,
No birth, identity, form--no object of the world.
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space--ample the fields of Nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold--the embers left from earlier fires,
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring's invisible law returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.
This poem I first encountered in
the movie "The Notebook" is indeed a life's representation of
continuous hope and faith that all things will always come out good in God's
time. When you feel lost; when you feel that you are just an object of
disposal; or when you feel that you do not know who you really are in the midst
of artificial society, you should not let anxiety overcome you. It is easy to
be overwhelmed by your own fear and doubts. However, one thing that can help
you find a turning point is hope.
Hope is what keeps human alive
and "flame again". Hope is what motivates us to wake up every
morning, knowing that the darkness enveloping us will be torn down and give
rise to the sun. Hope motivates us to work things out in ways possible for us
to do. Hopes without action is naught; it is a fresh seed left burnt and dead
under the sun.
After hope comes faith. When you
have hoped and done whatever is best for your hope to come true, faith comes in
the form of believing and surrendering to God that all you have done will bear
good fruits. To every "frozen clod" there will always be the return
of spring's abundance and summer joy. To every obstacle there will always be
enlightenment and at the end, an auld lang syne to cherish.
Life is a cycle of continuous
hope and faith, and nothing is ever lost in that cycle. What you think is lost
actually metamorphoses to a new thing through awakening life experiences.
People say they loose money; they seldom appreciate the notion that by loosing
money, they learn to be more careful. People say they loose their loved ones;
it is just physical and nothing from their lovely memories will ever be lost.
Maybe by loosing their loved ones, they acquire the enlightenment to make an
effort to cherish the next in line. So many losts in fact give way to a better
understanding of and better things to your life and others that intersect your
path.
So never let yourself down in
what seems to be a "shifted sphere", "dimming light", or
"frozen clods" for shifted sphere will give rise to new lives,
dimming light is just momentary, and that frozen clods will always melt and be
green again.
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