Look Around You (Gérard de Nerval)

Man, do you think yours is the only soul?
Look around you. Everything that you see
quivers with being. Though your thoughts are free,
one thing you do not think about: the whole.

Beasts have a mind; respect it. Flowers too—
look at one. Nature brought forth each petal.
There is a mystery that sleeps in metal.
Everything feels, and has power over you.

Be careful; the blind wall is spying on us.
All matter is connected to a word.
Do not make it serve an unholy purpose;
a god in darkness often walks obscured.
As eyelids of a newborn infant open
a spirit wakes and gazes from the stone.



Peace Forever,
Firacub.