144. Nature
The overwhelming character of nature
is something that man never can describe
nor live up to, grasp or even understand,
since nature ever is man's total master
against which man ever has to fail
in awkward and pathetic, constant and ridiculous defeat;
since man must ever in comparison with mother nature
stand a miserable naked lost and stolid child.
The greatness and the wilderness and power of Dame Nature
must constantly reduce the vanity of man to nothing,
and the only way to tame her and co-operate with her
is to respect her sovereignty and accept her terrible supremacy
in self-humiliation and to never try to challenge her;
for she alone has sense to know what life is all about.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-08-31 at 12:41
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