Computer Guy

Computer Guy
Sunset at DoubleM Systems (DBLM.com), Del Mar, California

Saturday, March 31, 2012

The Moment



The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room, 
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,


is the same moment when the tree unloose
their soft arms from around you, 
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.


No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.


-Margaret Atwood

1 comment:

  1. In Buddhism, one came to this world with being and take nothing with you when passing. One lives life the fullest is the winner of life.

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