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f4f3 ([personal profile] f4f3) wrote2006-05-16 01:44 pm

Like tears in rain.

I stopped off at my Dad's this morning to pick up my car, which had been resting over the weekend. The bonnet was absolutely covered with a blanket of cherry blossom, and I drove off trailing the blossom in a plume which rose over the windshield in front of me, like nature's tears, swirling for a moment, then gone to the wind, mixed with a fine drizzle that started falling as I drove.

Hey ho.

[identity profile] rparvaaz.livejournal.com 2006-05-16 12:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds lovely...so why are you sad?

[identity profile] f4f3.livejournal.com 2006-05-16 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Because something beautiful is gone.

[identity profile] rparvaaz.livejournal.com 2006-05-16 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, ok. I often react that way. And then I find myself reciting one of my favourite poems by Iqbal. It is a conversation between Beauty and God, with the former asking why it has not been rendered immortal. And God says that the world is a story of change, a picture painted in the colours of mortality, and only that which is ephemeral can be truly beautiful...Somehow the poem helps.

Hugs to you, m'dear.

[identity profile] nicnac.livejournal.com 2006-05-16 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
But you know it will return next year. If everything was beautiful all the time, we wouldn't appreciate beauty.

[identity profile] itchyfidget.livejournal.com 2006-05-16 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Cherry blossom, particularly when it's fallen, is simultaneously beautiful and sad. I get it.

[identity profile] rhythmaning.livejournal.com 2006-05-16 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Very poetic!

[identity profile] eidechsenengel.livejournal.com 2006-05-19 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
How beautiful! Thank you for that sweet insight into your soul...