Cloud perspective

Jack Greenman
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

Don’t lower your eyes
Don’t shrink from the responsibility
Keep your gaze high
Hold your lamp aloft.

When times are hard, look to the clouds
From their perspective, what do you see?

Peace.
The group.
Cooperation.
Abundance.

This is the truth, is it not?
Lift up your eyes and see
The ground-level details from this perspective:

Cloud perspective.

That gives beauty and dimension to the sky,
That gives shade to the ground and water to the earth,
That embodies change and the eternal in the same moment,

That sees our interconnectedness.

Always.

(With thanks to Rita Dove for the first line from her poem, “Lady Freedom Among Us.” http://www.amtrakthenational.com/between-the-lines-rita-dove)

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