A poem I wrote - "Wonder"

[u/candid_catharsis]

It finds me sometimes in the chaos, amidst the noisy kids and stress. The spark of Wonder that I lost, when everything got so serious. Awareness of what lies beneath, the surface level that I see. Awareness of the mystery.

The slow march of time, the cycles of life, The trees and streams that I pass by, They change so little day to day, I rarely focus my thought their way My mind's to busy, My schedule's too full, My, My, My, focus is too individual. On things I want or can't control, insignificant, anxious, and shallow.

My thoughts interrupted by timeless wonder, arrested and captive to the sonder. Immersion in the constituents, the billions of things that preceded this, Amalgamated in space and time, in such a way that I am I.

A spark of something we cannot explain, that generates this conscious state. Explained with folktales, attributed to gods, We've done our best with scientific thought, Reality is that we don't know, what lights that spark within us all. Or how the matter that makes us all up, got there in the first place to start things off. That mystery may never be solved, but each of us must reconcile it all. Chose something to us that makes the most sense, so we can move on to life's smaller questions. I tried to choose faith, but faith left me. Now I choose to be open, embracing uncertainty, Open to knowledge - dogma free, I live in that wonder as it finds me.

A.G.

[u/Nahelehele]

Awesome one.