Spiritfood

The earth, where the living grow,
the all-devouring grave,
the plain, the mountain, the sea, the river:
seems to be eternal and is transient.

Space and firmament,
the many revolving celestial relations,
the billion flame-spheres:
seem to be eternal and are transient.

What is buried by oblivion,
a lizard's creep, a wing's flutter,
a tremor that spins away:
seems to be transient and is eternal.

Because what occured once
will not be changed by any order,
either by God or by devil:
it seems to be transient and is eternal."