V. 2. / 132.) What Does It Mean . . .

What does it mean that the seasons change

The tides turn and that seeds must die

Before any tree can live... 
But the inevitability

That the way of things will change utterly...

And, yet still...

We'll be surprised beyond measure

And wonder what has hit us

We who have not learned from nature

The life-fullness of death

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