Alpha and Omega

I am everything.
I am nothing.
How do I balance
This tension?

I am everything.
All of me
Participates in life.
The gift of creation…
 Manifestation of the Divine

I am nothing.
My place in the Universe
So insignificant.
Here one moment
Not the next.
My passing causing
Scarcely a ripple.

Yet I do what I must…
Reach
Care
Connect
                 
Gratitude for the Gift
Earnestness in the Living
Humility in the face
Of the Awesome

The Balance ever Shifting.

 

– jml (1998)