Mar

6

I'm looking right now at some verse etched into the frosted glass of a medical center's lobby. Written by the prominent American poet, Robinson Jeffers, I found it poignant enough to pass on.

It's a less prosaic way of saying: Nothing changes.

The cycles surely will, as Jeffers attests, but not the grand cycle.

It's the immovable and ineffable force which ensures that the inevitable underlying shifts happen in the first place. As such, the following reads like an ode to the law of ever-changing cycles. And Jeffer's use of the term "Someone", could easily be viewed as an oblique nod to the immovable force.

Someone whispered into my ear
          when I was very young
Someone whispered that
          what was gone returns;
          what has been, is;
          what will be, was;
The future is a farther past.
   

— Robinson Jeffers

Gary Rogan writes:

Totally true unless found in an e-mail with "Sent from my iPhone" at the very bottom.


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