God loves Circles

Study the patterns in HIS creations 

Even God has a tell,

Which gives us a hint,

Into what He likes best. 

I imagine Him with a giant compass,

At His great big drawing board;

Drawing an arc this way, 

then anticlockwise back again.  

Planning the water cycle here, plotting the rock cycle there;

Planets and heavenly bodies all moulded into spheres,

Then placed onto orbits, never permitted to meander; 

Electrons orbit too, around their nucleus,

In every single atom, in every state of matter. 

Even food has a cycle, no matter who is king,

All dead convert to nutrients for microorganisms to binge; 

And while we are hovering over the subject, 

Air rather grandly calls its cycle, convection; 

While our blood internally circulates. 

The river begins in a glacier, 

Borne of melting snow,

Crossing civilisations to reach the sea,

Unidirectional in its flow. 

Yet what is it that happens, 

when it meets the warm sunlight’s glow?

Therefore, would it really be that presumptuous?

For us to assume, 

Since God does love His circles, 

He would repeat the pattern for our lives too? 

Then what false trickery of words,

has led us to believe,

That success is a mountain, 

Which, if we manage to reach,

Trekking on the steps of ambition, determination, perfection & competition; 

We can permanently reside at its peak?!

Only to get a rude awakening, 

After our steep, efforted climb, 

When things start to go downhill;

Should we really be surprised?!

Ascent, descent and a round trip again,

Isn’t that everything’s drill?

What goes around truly does comes around. 

Shouldn’t karma give us a hint?

So also our souls follow a cycle, 

Live…die…recycle…return…repeat;

Shedding a lifetime of accumulated impurities;

As we evaporate, much like the water,

that once lived in the hills.  

Yet what superior mental faculties, 

Causes us to not concede, 

That we are nothing more than a drop of water,

Returning to the sea?

So everything that we experience,

Every life event we are made to feel,

All really comes down to,

which arc of the circle, 

We are on currently… 

In this life’s cyclical journey.  

We may like the space we are in…

Or we may not, it doesn’t matter really,

‘Coz this too, along with all else, shall pass;

Our feelings can’t dictate how long we get to stay;

Only how we behave while we are there. 

God does love His circles, 

I’m sure there’s proof enough to agree, 

This theory ticks all the questionable boxes, 

(quite ironically!) 

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