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Poem A REVIEW / 이한중

2012.02.16 02:14

이한중*65 Views:3771

A REVIEW 
 
                              
                                이한중




    One day, 24 hours.
    One day, 1440 minutes.
    One day, 86400 seconds.

    My heart beats, let's say, once every second.
    So it beats 86400 times a day.
    My lungs do the same, every a few seconds.
    I feed myself diligently every day to supply the energy.
    All these enormous efforts every second of the day,
    I'd say an extremely high maintenance expense,
    in order for me to have the consciousness so that
    I can do this review for a change.

    That is not all.
    Look outside my being.
    In order to give me this precious day and night
    the sun continues its silent journey through the Milky Way,
    which it started aeons ago, and
    our Mother Earth  continues its silent orbiting
    around the sun, which she started aeons ago.
    My consciousness realizes that it owes just as much
    to the sun and the earth for its existence.
    For the sake of my consciousness at what a cost !
    I'd say the cost is immeasurable, infinite.

    My consciousness realizes that
    my consciousness is a priceless gift from my Creator.
    The natural question for me, my consciousness, is
    Why ?  What for ? What am I supposed to do with the consciousness ?

    My consciousness realizes that
    it is indeed a priceless, precious gift,
    which took my Creator
    the infinite amount of effort
    as I briefly reviewed above.
    My consciousness realizes that
    indeed it has to be the life-long effort on my part, my being,
    to find the purpose of my being, my existence, on this planet.

    If we were only to correspond to God's graces continually being showered on
    every one of us, we would be able to pass from being great sinners one day
    to being great saints the next.

    - Father Solanus -




    Poem : Hahn Joong Lee, Music: Sarah Chang (Vivaldi: Winter Violin Con.)
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